I'll venture to disagree with one detail of Frank's review.
At 08:30 AM 2/28/2003 -0500, Frank Roberts wrote:
[...]
It is recommended that one acquire the commercial box sets for the commercial
distributions or a commercial generated CD set for Debian. For Debian try a
company like Cheap Bites.
Wh
Hi All
Hope I am not sticking my keyboard in my mouth but here are a few thoughts on
the latest version of the three major commercial distribution and Debian.
Redhat - seems to be focused toward servers and uniform workstations for
corporate America. Single choice of desktop - The Bluecurve. Re
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Probably about as informative as RPMs are. That is to say, good but not
> great. Package names usually make sense, and searchig the package cache
> usually finds what you want. But sometimes your search terms are too vague
> to work ... you recall recent
As all posters before have been quite wholesome on
your questions,so I don't want add much more to that.
Debian seems to be a good choice, especially the
packet manager apt-get can make your life a lot easier
than rpm based distributions can.
I thought I might just mention my favourite/pet
distri
Haines -- Your reply posed a couple of new questions. I'm limiting these
comments to answering them.
At 06:07 PM 2/27/2003 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
[...]
> Hardware *detection* is a different issue, and on that score, Debian
> fares poorly ... unless you use very mainstream stuff, you have to
>
Ray,
Your frank comments are very much appreciated, especially for such a
nuisance question as I posed.
> Rather than pretend to an expertise I don't have, I'll try to be
> helpful by commenting on how well Debian fits with each of your
> criteria.
I'm inclined in that direction, so your comment
Yes, it is usually kind of a pointless question, for basically, all
the main distrubutions are the same, and the differences may be nothing
more than a matter of personal choice.
I'm inclined toward Debian, for I don't care for the direction I think
Red Hat is headed. The alternative to it might b
I think Brian's general response here is right on target. Most of us know
(and like) one distribution, and perhaps know a bit about one or two
others. But I very much doubt any of us is in a real position honestly to
compare all (or even all the major) distributions available.
Rather than prete
You are going to get as many different answers to this question as you would
what's you favorite $something. Only bad part about that is that most people
who answer these questions have never really used more than 1 or 2
distributions.(usually the first one they try doesn't work so they blame it
On Thursday 27 February 2003 18:59, Haines Brown wrote:
Trim.
> In light of this, which distributions should I be considering? Does
> one of them stand out in your opinion as an obvious choice in light of
> my criteria?
Slackware.
>
> Haines
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I've always used Red Hat. My installation of 7.3 began to go sour last
fall after a clumbsy video driver installation. Things got more
and more complicated, and I ended up having to do a fresh install of
Red Hats 8.0. Since then, things just have not worked right and I'm
spending all to much of my
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