[NTLUG:Discuss] New Computer -- which

[Kipton Moravec]

I do not know much about the differences between the different 
distributions of Linux.

I want to add a Linux as a workstation in a network with 5 Windows 98 and 1 
Windows XP computer.  There is no server.

I liked Redhat 9 because at the end of installation it was "automagically" 
on a windows network and I could see the shared folders on the Windows 
machines.  And transfer files back and forth with a GUI.

In addition the XP computer and one of the Windows 98 computers have the 
printer I intend to connect to for printing.

I do not want to start a distribution war, but should I go with Redhat 9 
knowing that it is the end of the line, or should I go to a different 
distribution.  My main interest is to keep the system up to date easily, 
and not have to get down in the guts of the OS to make something work.

Redhat 9 is the only distribution I have played with at all, and I am not 
very familiar with it.

Kip