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. Cheers! -- Han Tacoma <- getting into his bunker to avoid flames and bombs :-) ~ Artificial Intelligence is better than none! ~ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
