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Originally Posted by roadworker
THX for the input guys!
I was dl SuSe,since Novell offers a free version,but also got PCLinux......seems that it's more multimedia orientated than Mandrake or SuSe....  |
It's a superb liveCD distro, just get sure you dowwload the very latest release (v.81) as v.8 had an initscript bug which could not initialize SATA harddisks. PCLinuxOS is almost exclusively aimed at Linux desktop (not server) usage, and while it has a slight problem initializing modern hardware (based on Mandrake module, which is surely much worse than the Knoppix one, which is used in most current distros) it is great overall.
If you want to use Linux on a laptop, you can also consider Kanotix, which is based on Debian unstable (SID), and the custom kernel works great with ACPI, and all of the Centrino special features. IMHO it is WAY better than Ubuntu, Mepis or any other Debian based distro- but anyway my suggestion for noobs is still firmly PCLinuxOS.