<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Japofran @ Mar 7 2007, 07:42 AM) [snapback]282276[/snapback]</div>
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When I'm really bored I'll play with Linux. Any Linux fan out there can advise me which version/distribution/whatever a newbie should get to learn what the heck Linux is about? Lately I hear a lot about Ubuntu.[/b]
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I have used many of the purported newbie-friendly distributions (Red Hat, Fedora, Mandriva, SuSE, Ubuntu, Knoppix), and my favorite remains Mandriva (formerly Mandrake). Every other one of those I've listed has had something about it that annoys me... but Mandriva just works the way I expect it to almost all of the time.
Of course, the beauty of linux is that there is no one *best* anything... And virtual machines make it easy to test out distributions without sacrificing a real machine.
For the record, I use DOSBox most frequently as a virtual machine; other than that, I have had slightly better luck with VirtualPC (even before Microsoft bought it) than VMWare, though I have used both.