What's A Good Starter Linux distro?

alen writes "I've been working with NT for a year now, and I'm getting really tired of it. So I finally decided to learn Linux, after a year of putting it off. I've got an old P2 266 that I'm going to use. Now the next question is what distro do I get? What's a good starter version? I'm just looking to get the feel of it and to play around a little. " This question gets asked periodically - it's always good to hear have a lively discussion about it - I love my Debian but have heard that Mandrake is a good starter distro.

Re:Depends on your needs.

[loopkin]

and Suse ? the OS/2 of Linux ?

What's a good car to buy?

[RelliK]

I've been using public transportation for over a year and I'm getting really tired of it. So finally I decided to get a car. The next question is which model do I get? What's a good starter version? I'm just looking to get the feel of it and to play around a little.

Re:Depends on your needs.

[geirt]

RedHat is the ketchup of linux

Tasty, versatile, red and ubiquitous, but some people will tell you that it isn't very gourmet...

Number of distros is more than number of users

[Binary Tree]

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2000/4/linux_distros.ht ml