I have downloaded and attempted installs on 30 or so distros, till I settled on some favorites:<br>
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-Ubuntu and SimplyMEPIS seem to work most often for me.<br>
(Simply MEPIS has the fastest install I have seen)<br>
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-Slax and DSL seem to me the only usable live distros, speed wise.<br>
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-Knoppix along with the "Hacks" book would make interesting learning - repairing windows and linux and more.<br><br>
-Foresight LInux has the Mono Project for programming <br>
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-FC is not my favorite at all, but because it's cousin Redhat may be
more supported in business, it may be a practical learning experience.
I would love to hear how it goes, see your teaching outline, etc!<br>
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Bill<br>
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<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Topher Wrote:<br><br>Next semester at Cornerstone U I'm teaching an Intro To Linux class. The
<br>first part will be trying out a bunch of distros. I do have a time limit<br>of some kind, so I can't try all of them. I was thinking of Fedora and<br>Suse (major rpm based systems), Ubuntu (current debian based system),
<br>Gentoo (because I'm sick), and Slack (out of respect) for the large<br>distros.<br><br>I thought we'd look at a couple cd based ones, Knoppix and Gnoppix for<br>example. Then a couple micro distros, which I don't know much about.
<br>Something like Damn Small Linux. Any suggestions on a couple of these?<br>I'd love to get some that install on USB sticks that would be really handy<br>for the students.<br><br>Can Suse iso's be downloaded free these days? I remember they didn't use
<br>to be.<br><br>Any suggestions on changes?<br><br>Topher<br>Manager of Internet Services<br>Cornerstone University Radio<br><br>------<br>"How long is a girl a child? She is a child, then one morning you wake up<br>
and she's a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none."<br>
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