I have four boxes at the house:
AMD T-Bird 750@825, Celery 366@550, an AMD K6-2 350 and K-2 300.

To assist me in getting MCSE'd, I am going to set up a network at home. I'll be using Win 2000 server and prof, Win 98 and a version LINUX. Any suggestions on the Linux side? I've heard Redhat is easy to use, but, a local guru said that Proginy is easier to set up than any of them. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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Uh, what country is this??

From my experience redhat is the most 'windows'esque linux flavor. The installation process has nice windows, and spells everything out. It has default installations, etc etc.

DO NOT use FreeBSD. That is a pita. I say give redhat a shot. You can download it from redhat.com for free.

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Manu Narayan

Redhat, Mandrake, Suse...all good distros. Redhat's definitely the easiest. You just boot to the CD and click 'OK' a lot. It's the Macintosh of Linux. Mandrake was based on Redhat, but with a little more freedom. Suse is more hardcore. I can't even install the damn thing. In the end, out of all these distros, I found Redhat the best to work with if you have no Linux experience. You learn a few shell commands, how to compile source, get an Apache server running, then you're ready for a tougher distro.

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My suggestion goes towards Mandrake. I've been using Mandrake 8.0 (Air) for a while now, and really love it. To a windows user, its pretty friendly, and they have many custom utilities that make it that much more configurable. Graphical everything, and little utilities to get you up and running in a snap. They also have something like a windows update that keeps you ontop of everything.

I'm gonna have to be different here... I've used both RedHat, Mandrake, Solaris, Slackware, and FreeBSD... So far FreeBSD is my favorite. Been a long time since I've used some of the others so they might have improved by now.

I used Corel Linux and found it to be easy, well-supported, and somewhat Window-esque (ie. easy for previous Windows users to use). We were running 5 boxes, 4 with 98, 2k, or 2k server, and one with Linux.

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