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Article #1109Re: which linux to get
From: Ted Kiela
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 21:21
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 for these things, and it says that it was withdrawn by request of the 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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