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Simo wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for peoples opinions on the diffrent disbutions of linux
> for someone who has little experince with linux but wishes to get
> into using it
> 
> just wondering what people thought of them
> 
> it seems to me that Red Hat and Slackware seem to be most that
> are around ..... also is there any general consenus on which are more
> buggy  ??
> 
> thanks  :)

Well, this question potentially leads to discussions which would be
suitable for alt.religious.wars.linux.distributions ;-)

I use Slackware, mainly because it was the first Linux I got my hands 
on.  If was a quite steep learning curve - I am still on it, but the 
gradient is more managable now :-)

When I tried RedHat 3.0.3, it looked cleaner during installation (less
messages) but it could not find my NE2000 network card.  I was stuck 
with several friendly menus which kindly offered to repeat the relevant
part of the installation - without any different results.  
However, when I supplied the port address and IRQ number manually as per
SlackWare instructions, I got it going.

I then proceded to use the friendly RedHat menus to create a few user
accounts.  RedHat cheerfully went to the task and wiped out every
existing user directory tree with those names .....

I personally prefer command-lines and straight ASCII files --- it's
something that _I_ can understand.

Some people like menus and clickety-click button based video games
(instant gratification when the button changes color!)  maybe they
should consider W95 which is even more "user friendly".

Phew, that was my two cents worth - I better keep a low profile now!

Manfred