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Subject: Re: Choosing a Linux distribution

Author: pavel

Date: 10:27:44 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 are gonna use it alongside windows, I woudn't suggest mandrake.
It screwed up my windows partition twice. And the only way to get out of it was
to install everything from scratch.

Suse and Redhat are my recommendation.

pavs



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