Eric Jackson wrote: > I saw that Suse had an evaluation disk that you can download and try. It > writes 3 or 4 files to your hard drive but it doesn't do any partioning. > When I tried that, it was fine. I had a working evaluation setup on my > computer. Because of that, I bought Suse 8.0. It installed with no problem > on my desktop. I now have Madrake on my laptop (although it doesn't > recognise my Intel Wireless II Internet adapter) and Suse on my desktop > (although I have no CD audio). > > Since I couldn't get one distribution installed, I tried another.
That is very good advice! (Something I had forgotten.) When I started in Linux, I bought a few distros (some real shareware type stuff and Caldera Open Linux 2.2). Fortunately, I did manage to install Open Linux 2.2 -- it wasn't too bad, IIRC. Anyway, a little later I joined a LUG and got a stack of 10 to 15 different distros. Tried to install them -- if they installed I tried them out for a few hours. Eventually decided (at that time) to stick to Mandrake. Probably half of those distros didn't install at all on my particular machine(s), and another 1/4 of those weren't user friendly enough to bother trying. The point is there are a lot of alternatives in the Linux world. SuSE and Mandrake are, IMHO, two good choices. There are others, depending on your knowledge, experience, tolerance for frustration, etc., like Red Hat, Slackware, Debian, GenToo, etc. Join a LUG, try a variety of distros. Randy Kramer
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