There were some bugs and security holes in 7.0 that were fixed in subsequent releases. If you bring a couple of blank CDs to the next meeting, I'll give you a copy of RedHat 7.2.
I don't have much (any?) experience with SUSE, but I've heard good things about it. There are some nice features of RH7.0+, such as the installer. But as I mentioned, 7.0 and 7.1 were kinda buggy. I know one guy who refused to run anything beyond RH6.2 in a production environment where we worked because of those bugs (hey Dustin!). :) I use RH7.2 at home and work and think it does the job with minimal fuss, though one beef I do have with RH distros is that the default install, uh, installs lots of stuff I don't use or need. Debian, and soon Gentoo, Linux are better for minimal installs but of course require more software to be installed as it is needed. Hence, those distros have really good software package management apps. Another good point about minimal install distros is that you can more easily learn what is necessary to make Linux go. Here are some good links for learning the guts of Linux: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ - just what it says: compile and install all of the Linux OS from source code. http://rute.sourceforge.net/ - Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition. Nice and very comprehensive tutorial on the Linux OS. (hey John B., how about adding a "Learning" category to the www.brlug.net Links area and adding the two links above?) Go nutz. John Hebert > -----Original Message----- > From: Shawn Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 2:56 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [brluglist] Which do you think is better? > > > I just got a copy of Red Hat 7.0. > > What are the member's preferences between that and SuSe 6.2 > (the Linux > I'm using now)? > > Thanks, > Shawn > > > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ > ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
