On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 15:28:16 -0500 Price Technology <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are they returns or first time migrations ?? > > I consider RedHat to be the defacto standard Linux distribution. More > people have heard of RedHat than any other. That's the reason I chose > RedHat in the beginning and the reason I'm sticking with it. > > I've had others try to convince me to follow other distributions and > some have given compelling, alomost convincing, reasons. When you > start looking for books on the subject however, RedHat has been > written about more than any other, surpassing even Linux itself. (No > I don't have any statistics here, just my observations. Call me old > fashioned, but I'm a book freak) > > I'd say it's probably not a question of returning to RedHat so much as > it's a question of migrating from somewhere else. > > Joebewan > May I poke a small hole in that theory? Sorry just have to..lol. Nothing personal. I did start off with Redhat around 6.2 I think it was. Then found Mandrake and used that for a short time. I got frustrated with dependancy problems when trying to install/upgrade programs I wanted/needed to use. So in my search I found SuSE. I have used SuSE longer than any distro, keep in mind I have only been using linux for about two years. But with the newest version of SuSE I started having the frustraitions of dependancies as I did with Mandrake. Now I am using Red Hat 7.3 and am soo amazed at the lack of dependancy problems I have had with it. Keep up the good work Red Hat! Red Hat takes a little more knowledge to operate than the above mentioned distro's in my opinion, but well worth it. I see a trend in linux distro's. A trend that is more geared to the Windows user thats migrating. Easier to install so they don't have to learn very much to get a linux system up. This is all fine, but I think some distro's are losing sight of linux and the apeal of configuring it yourself without a dependancy problem with every new program install or upgrade. I guess these other distro's beleive your either to stupid to run linux so they make it easy, or they figure your such a linux geek you can deal with the dependancies. I think I'm somewhere in the middle there. I'm not a complete idiot about linux, but I'm far from guru status. Red Hat is just right for me. Bourne again RedHat User _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
