I like Fedora GNU/Linux since it's split from Red Hat. It appears to be moving in Debian's direction, i.e. it's a community-driven distribution. The key difference between it and Debian, though, is that it will likely have more/better commercial support since it's the baseline for Red Hat's commercial distribution.
http://fedora.redhat.com/
Installation requires downloading a bunch of CD images, but the installer is very well done. It figured out almost all of the hardware on a state-of-the-art laptop; the only item it missed was the strange screen resolution, and it got pretty close.
The first thing you'll want to do is disable the extremely annoying console bell. Edit
/etc/inputrc
and uncomment the line
set bell-style none
. It's right at the top of the file - I guess a lot of people want to do that so they make it easy.
You'll want to install
apt
, which is a front-end to rpm. It makes it very easy to download and install packages because it knows what other packages each package depends on.
http://fedoranews.org/jorge/howto/howto02.shtml
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TobyCabot - 16 Mar 2004
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