On 21 Mar 2003 at 19:15, Han Tacoma wrote: > Hey Jeroen, > > On Friday, March 21, 2003 12:02 PM you wrote: > > > At 07:56 21-03-03 -0800, Nick Arnett wrote: > > > > > > I am considering buying two books on Red Hat Linux 7.2: > > > > > >Do you know that RH 8.0 has been released, and it is a fair bit > > >different from 7.x? > > > > Yes and no. Yes, I know RH 8.0 has been released, but no, I am not > > yet familiar with the differences. And right know, after spending > > some time sitting in the sun and enjoying a few glasses of red wine, > > I'm too lazy to find out. <Hick. Burp.> :-) > > > > The reason I explicitly mentioned RH 7.2 is that I recently bought a > > box set of RH 7.2 Professional on the cheap (EUR 35, down from EUR > > 235). Given the price I already figured a new version must have been > > released, but for an absolute newbie who just wanted to get > > acquainted with Linux, this was an offer I just couldn't refuse. > > Have you ever heard that saying "Real men don't eat quiche?", well, > ...there's something similar about Linux: "Real geeks use Slackware!" > > Anyway, it's too late now, I think you would have learned a lot more > if you'd gone the Slackware route -- any other distribution makes it > too easy, and you don't get to really *know* Linux.
Actually I'd advise you to use whichever distro your local LINUX know- it-all uses :P S'why my other OS on this PC is SuSe Linux. Andy Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
