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Re: which distribution

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From: Henry D.
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 00:00
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I kinda like Mandrake 6.1.  It is based on Redhat but has a few fixes
and improvements.  Caldera 2.3 and Redhat 6.1 both have nicer-looking
installation interfaces though.  I tried Caldera 2.3 but when trying
to use Netscape, my hard drive would churn and churn for several
minutes before Netscape would start....didn't experience this problem
with Mandrake or Redhat.  Caldera probably sets up a smaller swap
partition (since I'm still a newbie, I use the default workstation
installations).  The Caldera problem occurred on a Pentium 233mmx with
32mb.  I've since increased the memory to 64mb so that may help but I
haven't tried to re-install Caldera.

On Thu, 4 Nov 1999 14:08:03 -0600, "Rick Freeman"
<rfreeman@nwoknet.net> said something that went like this:

>Hi I am a newbie to the world of linux. I have a copy of redhat 6.0. I use
>my computer at home only and I was wondering which distribution would most
>likely be the best one to use. I was kind of leaning towards the Caldera
>version. Any suggestions please:
>

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Regards,

Henry -----> hldevereux@yahoo.com
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