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Subject: Re: Off Topic: Flavors of Linux

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:00:43 01/20/00

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On January 20, 2000 at 18:44:46, Larry Applebaum wrote:

>Even though I make my living writing software for Windows
>platforms (mostly) and OpenVMS (not so much, anymore), I
>think it's probably time to get some exposure to Linux -
>don't laugh, I just move a little slowly sometimes.
>
>My questions are: Is there any *best* package? RedHat,
>Mandrake, plus others I have no clue about, and is there
>any one or more that should be avoided?
>
>Thanks!
>
>p.s. My e-mail address has changed to lma@gci.net



RedHat has the biggest market share...  one reason is that they offer
software support services (for a fee) which is what businesses need with a
unix platform.  You can order the latest (redhat 6.1 at present) for 3 bucks
from www.cheapbytes.com

I'll try to answer any questions you have... I've been using unix for > 20
years, and linux for about 6.



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