Hi & Distro Recomendation for newbie

Hello all...
 

I am starting a data warehousing project at work and have about 15 years
experience developing Windows applications. I have never worked with
Linux. I have played around with FreeBSD a bit at home.

After two weeks of hard thought, I typed "FORMAT C:" on my test server.

I am leaning towards Slackware on the server and Services for Unix on my
dev box. I have heard that Slackware is not for beginners. I don't see
any need to install a desktop on the server, so I like its text based
nature. Am I biting off more than I can chew, or can someone with good
tech skills manage Slackware as their first Linux experience? Any
advice is welcome.

Thanks,

Brent

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Received on Wed Sep 14 13:35:52 2005