🚀 go-pugleaf

I'd appreciate the FAQ for this if someone could send it to me...feel free to 
reply otherwise!

I'm thinking of installing Linux in a partition on my HD. I've been running 
OS/2 on a primary partition for a few months and decided that I'm not 
entirely happy with it. So, I'm going to trash it and start afresh with 
Linux.

I have:

Pentium 90
1Gb EIDE HD (divided into partitions - one for booting DOS, one for booting 
OS/2)
170Mb IDE HD (I'm going to use this drive for Win 95 - which I want to be 
able to dual boot to when I need to use it)
Diamond 2Mb DRAM video card
Goldstar Quad speed CD-ROM

I am interested in Linux because I use UNIX at work extensively (and hence 
I'm perfectly comfortable using it) and I'm sick of Windows and OS/2. I'm 
reasonably comfortable doing minor low level tasks on a computer (eg. trying 
different video drivers etc) but I don't want to spend days trying to get a 
basic Linux installation working.

I'm after a stable distribution of Linux, that is neither 
"just-for-beginners-and-hence-not-very-configurable" nor 
"so-many-install-options-it-will-confuse-the-hell-out-of-you". I want to be 
able to install it quickly and easily, and then once I've got a feel for it, 
start to make full use of it's power. I suspect I should get the final 
release of 1.2.x, which I think was 1.2.11. 

I'm a fan of software manuals (the Win95 manual continues to demonstrate 
that software companies believe that their products are a breeze to install 
and we prefer to read all of our manuals online), so I'm thinking of buying 
one of these user guide thingy's with a "free" distribution of Linux. Is 
there a particular book people recommend? Price is not a concern here. I've 
looked in a couple of Sydney city bookshops and seen some but the best I 
could find was Slackware 1.2 which seems too old. Yes?

Lastly, where would I buy it from? I live near Ryde in Sydney, and work in 
the city, so any decent business around those two areas will do.

Hmm. That's enough questions for now.

Thanks!
David Gilliver