Sidux.com - Debian Sid without the pain and a live cd thrown in for good measure
The unstable branch of debian with upgrade warnings and patches.
Bleeding edge linux without the personal blood loss.
Kanotix.com - Debian Etch enhanced and made easy. One of the best live disks out there.
Dripping with
convenient scripts written by resident wizard, Kano. This is perhaps the best
beginners distro in existence while still offerring lots to the hardened geek.
A great distro in it's own right and the base for many, many others. A staggering repository of open source software that has no equal, and a social contract that we could all learn from.
If only I had found and done these lessons when I first started. These will save you from asking a lot of embarrassing questions.
MusE - Linux Multitrack MIDI sequencer and analog recording studio.
A system that will feel comfortable to Cubase users. Extremely powerful and completely free. Also in the debian repo for simple apt-get installation.
