Re: Red Hat 6.2

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From: Marcus Leonard
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 00:00

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I agree, if you're new, start with Mandrake. 7.1 is very very good, and it's
still Red Hat underneath, so you won't get confused with all the RH help out
there. Mandy has the most sophisticated partitioning and disk management
stuff I've seen. Very slick. Supports all sorts of filesystems I've never
even 'eard of.

- Marcus



David D. Huff Jr. <DavidHuff@computer-critters.com> wrote in message
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> 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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From: "Marcus Leonard" <mdl@netspace.net.au>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.2
Date: 2000/10/22
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