1998-06-03 there where 62481 registered Linux users (Linux for Intel based computers). The most common distribution is Slackware. Of the registered users over 50% uses the Slackware distribution. Which is the distribution that I have chosen to use. ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/slackware-3.4 is the home of Slackware. But you might want to look up any of the mirror sites to ftp.cdrom.com and find the one that are closest to you. Or is less crowded then ftp.cdrom.com.
2000-01-08 The most common distribution is Red Hat. Red Hat can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.redhat.com and that is the home of Red Hat.
Is the latest official release of Red Hat. For a long time I was running 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2 on different machines and was happy with it. Then I installed 7.0 and on top of it found webmin and I'm now trying to schedule upgrade of my 6.x machine to get them to 7.1 which has some more nice additions to it from 7.0..
If you want to make life easier on yourself while administrating your machines and all the services on your machines, may it be, httpd, wuftp, proftpd, dhcpd, mysql, postgresql or what ever other service you might run on your machine then webmin is the tool you need to use.
On a Redhat system it's REALLY easy to get up and running. All you need to do is download the latest rpm from www.webmin.com
Interested in games? Yes there is "real" games for Linux to. You can play Doom II, Quake, Quake II and hopefully there soon will be a Linux version of Unreal. If you want to really enjoy those games there is a Linux version of Glide so you can use your 3Dfx card under Linux to playing Quake II for what ever. A very good list about which games that are available for Linux can be found at http://www.happypenguin.org
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