I want to know the best Linux distribution that is available for free.?

I am a computer science student doing an open source project. I have installed Red Hat Linux 3.0 in my system. The problem with this is that RHL 3.0 does not support NTFS or FAT32 drives and hence I am not able to view data stored on these drives. Further more it is giving me a lot of problems while trying to connect to the internet. I dont have much knowledge about linux and hence i want a easy to learn flavour that supports Qt, C++, Java etc. I would also like to know how to burn the .iso files that i download in a cd (to make it bootable) using Nero

I want to know the best Linux distribution that is available for free.?
Red Hat 3.0 is very very old!


The most friendly distribution is Mandriva 2007, followed by Ubuntu.


Below, a link to a cut-and-paste type guide for the most used Linux distribution.


On distros official sites (links on that guide itself) you'll find every info to get in touch with the Linux community and asking for specific help
Reply:ubuntu
Reply:I've come to love Ubuntu Linux. Just about all of the "distros" are free.





http://www.cdburnerxp.se/ can help you with burning those ISOs, assuming you're running Windows.
Reply:I suggest you get another version of Red Hat or Suse that supports your drives. Redhat versions of Linux is supposed to make those things easier to do. I have a C compiler but I suggest you ask someone from field support who works in IT companies for resource. They usually have these on hand. To burn the files, you can download using mediaplayer or RecordNow.exe but do take note that these free files usually have bugs.





Nero has a version of Linux. Linux cannot really detect NTFS / FAT32 since these are Windows file systems. Linux has a different way of connecting to the net as well.





Good luck on your project!