-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 March 2004 13:48, robin wrote: > > It's hard to judge on just one release, since there's always > variation between releases anyway (9.1 was a PITA for me, as was > 8.1 - if I were superstitious, I'd definitely give 10.1 a skip). > For me, installing 10.0 was a doddle, but configuring it gave me > more fun than anything since RedHat 6.0 (Oh, those happy days of > hacking modelines!). Still, I'd say the Community Edition is for > the established community, not for anyone trying out Linux for the > first time. > That's my feeling, too. As for comparing releases, it's just about impossible. What is brilliant on one machine is a total disaster on others. 8.2 is lauded by most, but was a disaster for me. 9.0 worked, more or less and 9.1 was brilliant - I'm reluctant to change this box.
There are no easy answers, but it's certainly an issue that has to be considered when thinking of giving linux to non-techy users. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAXVKFkFAvMr/nNX8RAhrSAJ9SKoJfOXYs1jJLAREEUHgG6RfYuQCdGmkI gioau23Sn/NUiinlSu3o6GQ= =OsCk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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