| that the easy ones are Mandrake, Red Hat and Suse. Suse, however, is not available for download, although they used to offer an ftp installation. Read all you can on the associated websites, especially about hardware compatibility. There are numerous places to start acquiring the information you need, but I recommend you start at linuxiso.org. It's got the downloadable iso images for the common distributions and links to the websites where you can get information. Arienadean, by the way, has lots of links and advice for guys in your position, but she's usually online in the evening West Coast time. |