beginner distro

[stinkoman]

please lock this if it turns to a 'best distro' thead, but im setting my brother up with linux, and i want him to have an easy distro to work with that i `can help with over the phone easily, i was thinking ubuntu/kubuntu, he wants to work towards slackware though. any linuxes that are source based but easy to use?

[Freston]

Neither the *buntu family nor Slackware are source based. But if you want to help your brother over the phone you probably want an environment which you yourself are comfortable with also. Thought about Vector yet?? It's 100% compatible with Slackware 12 (at least version 5.9 is).

[daacosta]

Perhaps Zenwalk?

[stinkoman]

i thought slack was source based? but zenwalk or vector are decent preslackers?

[Freston]

i thought slack was source based? but zenwalk or vector are decent preslackers?

It comes as binary packages. Zenwalk and Vector are both based on Slack, but tuned different. Both are good options depending on your needs of course.

[stinkoman]

his needs are he wants to learn linux as a standard os for living on. but wants to do that with slack.

[daark.child]

If he just wants to learn Linux, then any distro will do. Slackware however is not very newbie friendly (not saying that newbies can't use it), so there is a steep learning curve when compared to the likes of Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE etc. If he is looking to work as a linux admin, then Red Hat/Fedora, SUSE and Debian are the distros I would recommend he get familiar with.

[bidi]

I think Vector will be your best bet. For learning, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora, etc really just got the opposite direction.

If you want to learn to be an admin I'd say CentOS, Debian or OpenSUSE.

[stinkoman]

I think Vector will be your best bet. For learning, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora, etc really just got the opposite direction.

If you want to learn to be an admin I'd say CentOS, Debian or OpenSUSE.

thanks, vector? ill try that one.