Thanks, I have a copy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kent Loobey Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 7:12 AM To: The Eugene Unix and GNU/Linux User Group's mail list Subject: Re: [eug-lug]Jamie, why I'm using RH
On Monday 02 June 2003 11:01 am, Linux Rocks ! wrote: > Brian, > Well... if your priority is mainstream, then maybe you need Windows. As > far as I can tell, redhat is the microsoft of the linux community. Ive > spent a lot of time trying various linux's, and have found Mandrake to be > far superior to RedHat, its actually based on redhat, but it usually works > much better. If you like the way redhat does things, maybe mandrake is a > good thing for you to try. Alternatively SuSE is also very easy to install > and has a decent userbase. Personally I prefer Slackware, but its not > really a newbie type system (although it gets easier every new version...) I tried to let this pass but I guess I just can't. Stop by EFN when EugLug is meeting there (Thursday nights, I think) and get a copy of the Knoppix CD. Stick it in your computer and boot off of it. If you can do everything you want on it then you can install it to your hard disk and run it as a Debian system from then on. The whole process can take less than an hour. It is still Linux and all that that means but with far fewer problems (for me at least) than all of the other versions that I tried. > > Jamie > > On Monday 02 June 2003 03:27 pm, BAGGAB wrote: > : Jamie > : > : Thanks for the vote of confidence (it was kind of boneheaded of me for > : waiting so long.) > : > : I'm using RH because it is the mainstream distro. I have talked to many > : people outside of technical community. I would say that 75% have never > : even heard of Linux. So when Business Week highlighted Linux on their > : front cover I was excited. In that article it flatly stated "Linux > : Startups: Other then Red Hat, there's not much room for these small fry" > : and "Linux Purists: Linux developers who don't like the idea of working > : with > : capitalists had better get used to it." > : > : Now you and I may feel differently, but that's the perception (when there > : is one.) I just want the people I help to bring OSS mainstream to know > : the front runner. These many other distro's are too perplexing (the many > : choices that is) to the novice user, who may never be a technician, but > : may be willing to use Open Office if someone "holds their hand." > : > : Brian > : > : P.S. I am getting tired of the struggle. I have floated my idea for an > : educational website focusing on engineering and the environment to a > : local group, for the last time. If they are not interested I will go it > : alone and I won't much care about who knows OSS then and I will use what > : comes easiest. > : > : _______________________________________________ > : EuG-LUG mailing list > : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > : http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
