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Article #16843Re: Red Hat 6.2
From: craig
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 00:00
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 00:00
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Agree totally David, Mandrake is pretty cool BUT I am dissapointed in Linux. Its really shit to work with. Every configuration is a nightmare and requires you read a heap of unrelated material to get the info you require. User interfaces look nice work like Dogs. Clunky old X Windows is pretty crap in comparison to WPS Craig "David D. Huff Jr." wrote: > Just a suggestion for *nix newbies, try Mandrake Linux for your first > installation experience. It has the highest rating for ease of > installation (LINUXFORMAT.CO.UK). There are three experience levels to > choose from. Give me a 2Gig partition anywhere on your disk and I can > have a server running on it in as little as 28 minutes. > > BTW - Using the advanced user settings you will be given the choice of 5 > levels of security medium should be high enough, high is for people who > love pain and need long passwords (8+ characters) to feel safe.
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