choosing/choose the right linux distribution

yolinux.com has made an introduction on selecting your OS

Factors in selection maybe the following

• geographical location – majority of linux distributions has dominated their own market and perhaps the most part of the country adopting them. one example is RedHat and it’s derivatives(CentOS, WhiteBox, Fedora) dominating the US.. if your in one of it’s states would you choose SuSE? ***I have hurt someone. This can be also your preference.***
• level of experience – from newbies to experts[], old hardwares to sophisticated ones[from damn small linux or equivalent to a distro that has all the eyecandies(compiz, xgl)]
• choice – it will be your operating system so it’s your choice what path you will be tackling/you’ll have to do everything with it.
• life – yes. your life is also a factor on your choice of os. life is not easy. making an OS is not easy. customizing it is also not easy. be patient.
• intelligence – you might as well work with windows if you want less hassle. windows wants to make your life easier also it makes you dumb simultaneously.
• security – want some security might as well use linux and pick the best free distro available, the one providing free updates. there are many of those distro.

Tips:

• as a beginner one can start with any distribution but should focus on the market where one would focus. if your going to use redhat and redhat based products/distro use it and focus on it.
• use a gui/x/window manager or install one. this way one would not be hurt by the sudden migration. guess your coming from the M$ world.
• read – that’s all it takes for some beginner to learn. one should focus on command line since majority of the linux distro has different window manager so making use of the command line will definitely be a plus. all of them has the same implementation of commands distros have varied only in directory structure and placement of configuration files. but that only make the small part of it.
  • tldp (The Linux Documentation Project) – a great resource from the beginning system administration,bootup procedure(otherwise known as bootstrap process) to the advance world.. need i say more.
• experiment – learn (to fix) new things by breaking them.
• practice – use it always. youll get use to it.
• create – maybe you can automate things
• ask for assistance – once youre in a deep sh*t(oopss) ask. Clement Stone once said “If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.”
• join a community – this is what keeps linux burning. join the appropriate linux community appropriate with your distro choice. if redhat join a redhat forum.
• patience – once one is handling the operating system you should take care of your anger since breaking the hardwares with a bat won’t help at all. learn to solve and if your in deep trouble, post the problem and then maybe someone with the same problem can help you.
• search – seek and you shall find. use every search engine you could get your hands into.
• backup – learn first the cp command copy everything your messing with. then read about the other commands
• man – man is your best friend and not that dog! use man <command> to process/help you analyze the parameters of command. it can be very addicting though.

http://www.rodsbooks.com/distribs/ – has made a comparison more indepth than above. this one should make/help you with the decision.

Updates and Thanks:

Mark: I was so surprise when I got your comment. I just accidentally pressed published for it and now it is finished you can check it out again. Thanks for visiting.