Id suggest you Kubuntu - www.kubuntu.org (Ubuntu with KDE (a desktop  
manager - www.kde.org). Ubuntu comes with GNOME (a different desktop  
manager)) and both have a big users base, forums, etc.

Mandriva 2007 (about to sing the swan song in terms of upgrades  
availability) and 2008 are nice distributions for beginners too.  
www.mandriva.com

To install the current version of Kubuntu (just released 7.10) you need at  
least 512 Mb of ram. You can download the live CD in ISO format for both  
distributions (doesnt need installation but it will run slowly if you're  
short on ram) and get a taste of it.

If you decide to install it on your hard disk you can do it from the same  
cd and you can even keep your actual OS, given that you have enough room  
on your hard disk (a 15 Gb partition would be enough for a looong time and  
it can be even smaller since nowadays you can *reliably* have read and  
write access to NTFS partitions from linux), without major hassles.

Regarding the Desktop Managers, you can think of KDE as windows looking  
alike and of Gnome as mac looking alike. KDE includes a set of  
applications developed for the enviroment anmd tends to favour them while  
Gnome integrates popular applications to the enviroment. Of course you can  
integrate popular applications into KDE as well.KDE actual version is 3.58  
and a new release (4.0) is going to be officially released on jan the 17th.

On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:56:49 -0200, Andre Abelian  
<aabelian@mason-electric.com> wrote:

> Hi to all,
>
> I want to start working with Linux but I am little bit confused about  
> linux OS.
> Can any one recommend Linux OS since there are more then one version.  
> Any suggestion ?
>
>
> thanks
>
> Andre
>

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