According to Karl F. Larsen: While burning my CPU.
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> It is true Red Hat has GUI config devices that once your used to
> them it is fine. But then you never learn about the Unix plumbing system.
Well just a litte info, Slackware also has the same sort of GUI config
devices as you call them, they are just not so well know as those which are
in Redhat, { setup - netconfig } are very handy and powerfull tools under
Slackware.
There is another very handy tool, pkgtool for installing software.
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> I have Red Hat 5.1 loaded on 2 computers. It loads fine after you
> learn how to use that wierd partition tool! It loads a win-95 looking X
> manager and it does come up in Xwindows. If that had happened when I first
> tried Linux, I would have never learned how to run a unix system.
The same window managers are on both Slackware and Redhat, its just that one
system defaults to a certain window manager and the other to another.
> But Red Hat is for people who want to USE a computer, not learn.
Nope, in my opinion Redhat, Slackware and Debian are ALL the same "basicly",
its just that they ALL have different ways of installing and booting, then
the old word "Linux is Linux" comes to pass.
So Redhat is no more for USE rather than learn, than Slackware is, you dont
have to use ANY install mechanisum such as RPMS or pkgtool, there is always
good old "tar.gz".
Now where did i unpack that last tar-ball!!!!!.
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> On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Gevaerts Frank wrote:
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> > On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, hitchhiker wrote:
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> > > agreed...
> > > anyone posting questions on this list PROBABLY (IMHO) ought to be using
> > > something along the lines of Red Hat.
> >
> > I don't know. I never used Red Hat so I'm not sure of course, but is it
> > possible to do basic system administration in Red Hat from the command
> > line ? Not everyone has or needs X. It seems to me from what I've seen on
> > other people's machines that Red Hat likes to put config information in
> > files that are easy to find for their GUI tools, but hard to find if you
> > want to do things manually. Of course I could be entirely wrong, but if I
> > am, why should an other distro be more advisable for more advanced users?
> >
> > > it's when you find you don't need this list anymore that using the other
> > > ditro's is more adviseable.
> > > <grins>...as though I can really talk...I'm more of a newbie than most
> > > of the people here, I'm sure.
> >
> > I still think of myself as a (relative) newbie. That is, I edit all my
> > (slackware) config files by hand (for X this gives the best possible
> > results, for other things it's just more convenient for me to remember
> > what file to edit than what tool to use to edit that setting), but I find
> > myself copying the network initialisation script and adapting it for some
> > new need (eg a temporary different IP), than learning ifconfig and route
> > syntax.
> >
> > Frank
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> >
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> Best wishes
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> - Karl F. Larsen, 3310 East Street, Las Cruces,NM (505) 524-3303 -
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Regards Richard.
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