On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:52:17 -0600 Eric Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> try plopping a newbie in Debian. Nothing against Debian, I like > Debian, all 14 discs of Debian, but a newbie is liable to give up and > never touch Linux again for ten years before he even makes it past the > base system installation Well, sure enough. But that's if you do a real debian based install -- in many respects an "old fashioned" way to do things, now that there are a lot of one-disk front ends that are far easier to install (kanotix, knoppix, mepis, etc). They get you up and running fairly quickly, and then yuu apt-get everything you can get your hands on :). Personally speaking, I might never attempt a "real" debian install, but I had a rather serious foulup with Mandrake 10.1/cooker a month or so ago, and I ended up switching to Mepis. In short, I'm very happy with it. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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