🚀 go-pugleaf

On 06 Jan 1999 11:57:02 +0000 (GMT), David Damerell 
<damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

>Ascender  <ascender@NOSPAM!.deathsdoor.com> wrote:
>>Point 1 - Getting a working Linux system
>>-------
>>Personally, I use Slackware, so I'll advise on that. Redhat, Debian, or
>>similar, shouldn't be too different, just read the docs on the CD.
>>Bear in mind, though, that Redhat or Debian are better for complete
>>newcomers.
>
>Debian - good as it is - is not really trying to be novice-friendly.

I will add that SuSE, while novice-friendly, is very non-standard in
some respects. (For example, the init scripts present in /etc/rc.d
simply don't get run; they're run from a separate tree in /usr/etc/rc.d, 
or somewhere similarly bizarre.)

Not sure I'd recommend Red Hat to a beginner right now. 4.2 was
rock-solid; 5.2 is fairly good, but has a few quirks (like egcs as a C++
compiler but old Gcc 2.7.2 as a C compiler). And I _don't_ like the
default desktop environment. Maybe Red Hat 6 will be better?

I have a copy of Caldera Open Linux 1.3 waiting to install on a test
machine. KDE as default desktop, StarOffice 4.0 as standard ... if it
lives up to expectation, _this_ is the ideal novice-friendly system. I'll
report back when I've done some testing (including getting my pet novice
to install it for me :).



-- Charlie