You are likely to get a varied set of opinions on this one. I have used Red
Hat, Mandrake, and a couple of others while I was teaching networking and
Unix. My students would bring in various flavors of Linux and we would try
them out. Many liked Mandrake, but for my server I initially used Red Hat.
After running into a few problems, I decided to try Free BSD at the
recommendation from an advanced student (he knew more than I did).

I never regretted switching to Free BSD. It was easier (for me) to deal with
and seemed more reliable. It also did not install a bunch of software that I
did not need. In other words, it was lean and mean! To be fair, it is a bit
harder to configure for the novice, and there is not quite as much popular
support for it as there is for Linux. Note that Free BSD is NOT Linux; it is
another PC port of a Unix OS.

If all you want is to try out Linux or a UNIX type of OS, you can get a
bootable CD version or even a single floppy Tom's Linux. Just my input for
you to consider.

Peter
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> -----Original Message-----
> I want to use Linux as a second OS.  Can anybody tell me what the best
make
> of Linux is and which ones (if any) to stay away from?
>
> TIA,
> Riley Watkins

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