![]() Then there's the Fedora/Redhat side, which I don't have a great deal of familiarity with. (Ubuntu is based off Debian's testing branch) Downsides - the "stable" branch is very conservative, if you like your software to be the latest version available, Debian stable isn't the one for you! On the other hand there are the "testing" and "unstable" branches which, despite the names, are usually stable enough for home use. ![]() There are older distros, but without Debian I don't think Linux would have had the success it has. No discussion of Linux can be had without mentioning the daddy of them all, Debian. It's based off Ubuntu, with most of Canonical's insanity stripped out, and has a pretty good support forum. Linux Mint is a usually seen as a good all-round noob-friendly distro if you just want to run the graphical installer and get going within about half an hour. Most Linux noobs seem to use Ubuntu as their first distro, but increasing political and practical differences between Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) and the rest of the Linux world make me slightly reluctant to recommend it or any of its direct offspring. ![]() (And two posts have gone up since I started typing this!) ![]()
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