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OSNews: Choosing a Linux Distro, Part II

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“This article is a followup to an article I wrote on 2-20-2003
about my experiences choosing a Linux distribution that would suit
my needs and wants. My principal requirements for an OS are that it
be powerful and up to date, easy to use and set up–I don’t mind
using the command line and I don’t mind editing a file here and
there, but I like doing this type of editing for fun, not because I
have to. I also want an OS that is fast and looks nice on my PII
450 with about 350 MB of RAM.

“After choosing Red Hat as my favorite OS last time, I received
many kind emails referring me to one distro or another. For the
most part, I tried (or tried to try) all of them. Here are the
results…

“Let me first get these out of the way. I’ll preclude this by
saying I have nothing against these first few distributions, I just
couldn’t get them to install… that’s all…”

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