On Tuesday 01 April 2003 12:57 pm, Stuart Jansen asked of the Jedi Counsel: > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 12:41, Matthew Larson wrote: > > I am curious about the many different flavors of linux. Specifically, > > How do Gentoo and Debian differ from RedHat? How do Gentoo and Debian > > Differ from each other? > > > > Any comments? > > www.distrowatch.com > > This is a recurring question. Hopefully some kind soul will give you the > standard party line. I'm tired of doing it, so I'll limit myself to my > personal opinions. If no one replies, check the uug-list archives. > > The best distro to use while you're starting is what ever your friend is > using. The major ones here are Redhat, Gentoo, Debian, and *BSD. (Did I > leave anybody out?)
*COUGH* Mandrake. I'll leave out my personal opinion of Red Hat and just state the facts. Mandrake is nice because it has a tool in the install that lets you resize partitions. The latest version, Mandrake 9.1, even lets you resize NTFS (the file system that comes with Windoze XP) which previous versions could not do. Red Hat has yet to have that option. I've used this tool several times and only had if fail once (it claimed the partition was not resizeable, it didn't break anything) Mandrake has gone to great lengths to make GUI tools to help the user configure their system. Their main tool, known as "drakconf" has improved by leaps and bounds since I started with Mandrake 7.2 / 8.0 For example, in the drakconf version that comes with Mandrake 9.1 lets you import your Windows fonts (on a dual boot system) into Linux with one click of a button. You can just about configure anything on your system with it. One downfall is that the Mandrake company could be gone in a blink on an eye. Financial woes can do that to a company. However, Mandrake 9.1 is out, it rocks, and for a newbie I would recommend it over Red Hat 8 any day. -- Jacob Albretsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.knine.net/ READ THIS BEFORE OPENING PACKAGE: According to certain suggested versions of a grand unified theory, the primary particles constituting this product may decay to nothingness within the next four hundred million years. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
