Author: Bryan Hofmann
Date: 08:03:10 03/05/05
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On March 05, 2005 at 08:07:43, Omid David Tabibi wrote: > >I'm considering to install Linux on my machine (AMD64) to run alongside Windows >(fed up waiting for 64 bit Windows). I see that there are just too many Linux >distributions to choose from, and it's very hard to see the forest through the >trees. Redhat seems to be the most popular distribution, but I see that it is no >longer free. So, what would you recommend (64 bit support is a must of course)? >I considered Fedora, SUSE, Mandrake... but frankly I have no idea which one to >choose. Any suggestion would be highly appreciated. If you would really like the RedHat distro, here is a link to a clone of for RedHat Enterprise releases. They take the freely avaiable rpms from RedHat and create a distro package. http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=56 Fedora = This is the beta/test releases that eventually form RedHat releases Mandrake = Bleeding edge of software packages Bryan
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