[GLLUG] new guy to Linux, need a few reccomendations

[Clay Dowling]

Bert W. Carrier Jr. wrote:
> Thanks for the advice, guys.   I'll try to install Fluxbox, and see how
> that works.   I know nothing about BSD, so now is probably a good time
> to start learning.  what are some good resources for BSD?
>   
First, Fluxbox is awesome.  Light weight but still looks nice and acts 
like a modern window manager.  We run a kiosk machine at Penguicon using 
similar hardware, using fluxbox, and it works pretty darned well.

Second, OpenBSD is pretty powerful, and most everything you need can be 
found at http://www.openbsd.org.  It's also not a good starter UNIX.  It 
was written assuming that you knew what you were doing.  It's incredibly 
well documented and will run on almost any hardware. If you understand 
how UNIX works and are cool with the command line it's a great OS.  
There are no GUI admin tools though, and if you can't run your system 
from the command line you'll hate it.

Clay