Any of the three distros mentioned are sure to be fine. Personally, I find the sysadmin tool in opensuse to be fantastic for a novice.
It comes down to preference. Try some live versions of the distros to see what you like best. Douglas Bates wrote: > On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 1:13 PM, steven wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dear all; > >> I'm planning to install Linux on my computer to run R (I'm bored of >> W..XP). However, I haven't used Linux before and I would appreciate, >> if possible, suggestions/comments about what could be the best option >> install, say Fedora, Ubuntu or OpenSuse which to my impression are the >> most popular ones (at least on the R-help lists). The computer is a PC >> desktop with 4GB RAM and Intel Quad-Core Xeon processor and will be >> used only to run R. > > Ah yes, we haven't had a good flame war for a long time. Let's start > discussing the relative merits of various Linux distributions. That > should heat things up a bit. > > I can only speak about Ubuntu. I have used it exclusively for several > years now and find it to be superb. In my opinion it is easy to > install and maintain and has very good support for R (take a bow, > Dirk). > -- Kevin E. Thorpe Biostatistician/Trialist, Knowledge Translation Program Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 416.864.5776 Fax: 416.864.6057 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
