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the ONLY reason I love XP is for it's ability to install drivers with VERY little user interaction, most drivers are contained on the install CD itself, if not it goes online to find the best. &nbsp;I am a linux newbie, and I want to know which OS will be best for a situation where a PC has few or no drivers?<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Bill Mirza
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the ONLY reason I love XP is for it's ability to install drivers with VERY little user interaction, most drivers are contained on the install CD itself, if not it goes online to find the best.  I am a linux newbie, and I want to know which OS will be best for a situation where a PC has few or no drivers?

Thanks,
Bill Mirza

No Drivers, which Linux OS is best?

A Linux distribution is an operating system made as a software collection based on the Linux kernel and, often, on a package management system and are available for a variety of systems. A typical Linux distribution comprises a Linux kernel, GNU tools and libraries, additional software, documentation, a window system (the most common being the X Window System), a window manager, and a desktop environment. Most Linux systems are open-source software made available both as compiled binaries and in source code form, allowing modifications to the original software. Over three hundred distributions are in active development, including commercially backed distributions (such as Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu) and community-driven distributions (such as Debian, Slackware, Gentoo and Arch Linux).

Linux Distributions

The variety of Linux distributions creates myriad issues relating to configuration and operations when computers are networked, not the least of which is the use of various network management applications, some of which are included with specific distributions, while others are standalone applications.