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Subject: Re: Choosing a Linux distribution

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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