Good morning Jay. While we're talking distro numbers, Red Hat 9 is available from their website now and will be in stores April 7. I don't want you to run outd of things to play with. Rich
On Tue April 1 2003 7:48 am, Jay Schaffer wrote: > On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 01:14 AM, Tim Hammerquist wrote: > > [CLIP] > > > Personally, I'd recommend upgrading to a new version of linux, > > whatever the distro. I've heard good things about Mandrake 8 and > > 9, as well as Red Hat 8, SuSE 8. These are your best bets. > > Slackware and Debian are both very nice distros, but they aren't > > near as user friendly to someone even fairly familiar with linux. > > ##### Wow! This caught me by surprise. I burned my three CD set > from a friend's originals which he bought recently. I never even > thought to check the Mandrake website. Sur-nuf, the current > version is 9.1. > > > If you decide to upgrade, feel free to ask the list at large. > > Several of us would be glad to grab and burn an iso for anyone in > > need. > > ##### Though old and a bit slow, I have a CD burner on one of my > Macintoshes. Thanks for the kind offer. > > It seems to me at this point, I should at the very least upgrade to > the latest Mandrake. I have RedHat 8 running on another machine > and was just playing around with different distros to see if there > was one I liked better. > > Thanks to Jim & Tim for help and my apologies for bothering the > group with this inquiry when I was running such as old version. > > -- "Jay" > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug -- A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratliffe _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
