Rajesh Fowkar rearranged electrons thusly:
> Suresh It all depends on Choice. Finally Linux is about choice isn't it. I
> have never used slackware. Will have to try it out first before commenting
> on it. It comes on how many CD's ?
Yes. Nikhil's choice, my choice, your choice :)
> As far as debian is concerned as since most of the magazines support Red
> Hat, the people using redhat do not feel the pinch. With debian u have to
> always apt-get and that's a heavy price to pay on a dialup. Say around 400K
> deb file is OK not more than that. This is just a problem in India on
> dial-up.
That _is_ a problem with a "non magazine supported" distro. That's also what
friends in the LUG with fast broadband connections are for - they can
download update stuff and burn it on a CD for you. You can treat them to
dinner in return :)
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet <at> efn <dot> org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
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