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Re: which linux to get

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From: Ted Kiela
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 21:21
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I advice SuSE, user friendly, easy to install...


"William T. Hodel Jr." <wthodel@bellatlantic.net> wrote in message
news:3a901edc_1@grouper.exis.net...
> Done the Mandrake Thang ..... Liked it to a point... usually where my
> dependancies got so balled up.
> Dude, Try Connectiva 6.0, from Brazil. They have integrated APT into rpm
> management .... which is good for those of us that don't have 16 hours a
day
> to debug the stuff... They also have the mondo KDE2 desktop for those
using
> a gui.
> Drake is ok, but like Red Hat is overated.
> Point is, the people who worked on Connectiva seem to have taken into
> account some very important ideas. One, for thier economic structure,
Paying
> royalties to MS forever is dumb. Two, people really do not care what the
> run.... as long as it is stable, and upgradeable. Three, the install
process
> is as easy as Caldera's or Drake, easier than RedHat and with apt running
in
> the backround... for some odd reason... everything you install works....
> provided you listen to it and install the dependacies.
> "Jakob" <jak@mailme.dk> wrote in message
> news:4pSj6.794$Oy6.62346@news101.telia.com...
> > Robert Wickberg wrote:
> >
> > > There used to be a distribution HOWTO that compared distributions.  I
> just
> > > went to the linux documentation project site, which is the official
> source
> > > for these things, and it says that it was withdrawn by request of the
> > > author.  It can still be found all over the 'net, though.  For
instance:
> > >
> >
>
ftp://ftp.uni-mannheim.de/systems/linux/mandrake/6.1/doc/HOWTO/Distribution-
> > > HOWTO.
> > >
> > > It was written in '99, so it's kinda old, but it's a start.  good
luck!
> > >
> > >
> > > "Alok Wadhwani" <alokw@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > > news:8gGj6.94895$Wq1.39244822@nnrp5-w.sbc.net...
> > > > does anyone know of a site that compares all the different versions
of
> > > linux
> > > >
> > > > im trying to decide whether  to get redhat or corel or anything else
> you
> > > > recommend
> > > >
> > > > please send me your opinions
> > > >
> > > > thanks
> > > > alok
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > I also recommend Mandrake 7.2.
> >
>
>
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