Foreign White Devil wrote: > download and try the Live-CD's, which allow you to try each > distro before deciding on the one that suits. They run in memory and > don't change your current operating system. Hang out in the > irc.freenode.net chatrooms and see which impresses you the most. You > can tell alot about a distro by the users running it and what help they > generally provide. You'll probably be visiting them alot as you learn > your way around the system. Hi, That is all very good advice, but for those of you who don't want to learn irc and get a chat client and or those who don't really know what resources are out there, please contact me off list. I am offering a fee-based support service intended for beginning to intermediate computer users, supporting DOS, Windows and Linux. While I'm here, I will say that there are many freely available resources out there for those who don't mind looking, including numerous mailing lists. For just the Debian lists, check out: [http://lists.debian.org/ Debian lists] Also, Gentoo and probably others, including Debian, do have accessibility lists. The Gentoo list had no traffic when I was on it but that was several years ago. The Debian list is fairly quiet. There's also the blinux list, but I don't have a home page for it. Finally, there are always Google searches and the various HOWTO sites such as [http://tldp.org/ The Linux documentation Project]. That doesn't even scratch the surface. Each Distro generally has their own documentation such as the Debian Documentation Project.
