Author: Peter Skinner
Date: 07:47:44 12/16/00
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>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). Interesting. I have the following distrobutions to try: Mandrake 7.2 ( Which I have been told is a complete Red Hat ripoff ) Red Hat 6.2 Debian I am going to try Red Hat first of course. >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. Wow, wanna teach me via phone if possible? I would pay the charges in a heart beat. I really want to learn Linux. Quite a few people tell me the installation, and setting up internet access can be the trickiest of things, and I honestly only know 3 things about Linux. 1. It isn't Microsoft 2. I can have interfaces like Windows ie. Gnome, KDE ( Do you use any of these?) 3. When dual booting Linux and Windows, at the prompt at boot up you type DOS to get to Windows. Other than that.... nothing... >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. I have used Win NT 4.0, and I have used Windows 2000. I like Windows 2000, but I find that oddly after installing other MS products like Office 2000, the stability goes down the drain. Linux to me, now looks like the OS of the future. I believe quite a few people are seeing the same thing.
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