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Article #54319Re: Linux Distribution
From: Ralph Buttigieg
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1997 00:00
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>> ><P>ahh, the eternal question. ><BR> > ><P>if you want to run linux that looks as close as possible to a normal >type unix, run slakware. if you want to get into the whole linux >filesystem and package management, etc use redhat. > ><P>There's quite a bit of difference between the distributions, I've been >a sysadmin on various platforms (SCO, AIX, Solaris, IRIX, etc) for >5 years, and I can move around a slakware box just like any other machine. >however, I've recently installed redhat on a spare partition, and I can't >find configs to do all sorts of really easy stuff. ><BR> > ><P>so. if you just want to tinker with linux, it probably doesn't >matter. if you want to use it to improve your general unix knowhow, >slakware's th closest to other unixs. > ><P>BTW, I think redhat is overrated. > ><P> ><PRE>-- >Regards, > >Justin Wills >justin@nectar.com.au</PRE> > </HTML> > >--------------9E2C6B55A1730B0943726C97-- > Ok, but have you or anyone else tried Caldera? Whats their distribution like?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,492f407c1eb1c8b5 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: ralphb@zip.com.au (Ralph Buttigieg) Subject: Re: Linux Distribution Date: 1997/11/06 Message-ID: <34621da6.464442447@news.zip.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 287493967 References: <345e75cf.0@news.argo.net.au> <3460F6A2.E44C47E1@nectar.com.au> Organization: The Zipsters Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux