Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:26:09 12/16/00
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On December 16, 2000 at 00:47:07, Peter Skinner wrote: >>Skip redhat 7. use 6.2. Or another distribution. 7.0 has the latest >>release of XFree86, which has some serious bugs. I'm running it on my >>notebook, but not anything else, yet... > >After posting the reply, I got several people who emailed me stating the same >thing about Red Hat 7, and to get Red Hat 6.2. > >I have been talking to quite a few Linux users, and many say that Red Hat, and >Mandrake are "Newbie" distrobutions. Is this true, and if so, why would a long >time Linux user like you be using it? They say this because the install GUI is really easy to use. IE it is no harder than a normal windows install when using redhat. The reason I use redhat is that it is also a very _complete_ package, with all the normal stuff I use (compiler, utilities, PVM, etc). > >I am VERY unfamiliar with Linux, in fact I know almost nothing about it, which >do you think would be the best one to get to learn it? I teach rank beginners how to install and configure linux, and I use redhat to do this. The install facility is as good as anything around for this purpose. Installing linux used to be a chore, finding the right versions of system utilities was another chore. RedHat has simplified all of this to make it easy to get it up and running. > >Any help would be helpful. I have had my last MS crash I am willing to deal >with, I want stability, and I saw just how much software there is for Linux. >Almost everything I use in Windows, is available for Linux. I had no idea, if I >did, I would have been a user a long time ago. Windows NT was very reliable. Windows 2000 seems a tad less so. I consider windows 95/98 to be trash. I don't have any ME machines so I can't comment there. If I had to run windows, it would definitely be NT 4, as we have had that up in our labs for several years with no problems of any kind. Linux is all I personally run on the machines I use, and it is also rock-solid and doesn't crash, period.
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