Re: [newbie] What version (distro?) to run on my new box?

2002-08-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 22 Aug 2002 5:52 am, you wrote: All right folks, I'm about to order all the parts for my new machine, and I'm going to order the OS along with it. What do I order? I'm open to anything. I would be very interested in beginning a Debian learning curve, so that's one possibility.

Re: [newbie] What version (distro?) to run on my new box?

2002-08-22 Thread Steve Maytum
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 5:52 AM Subject: [newbie] What version (distro?) to run on my new box? All right folks, I'm about to order all the parts for my new machine, and I'm going to order the OS along with it. What do I order? I'm open to anything. I would be very interested

Re: [newbie] What version (distro?) to run on my new box?

2002-08-22 Thread Derek Jennings
My vote would be to use Mandrake 8.2 download edition. Thanks to a screwup in the building of the Powerpacks, there are actually fewer applications on it, than on the download edition. (Apart from the commercial applications which apart from SO6 are not usually of much interest) A download

[newbie] What version (distro?) to run on my new box?

2002-08-21 Thread Isaac Curtis
All right folks, I'm about to order all the parts for my new machine, and I'm going to order the OS along with it. What do I order? I'm open to anything. I would be very interested in beginning a Debian learning curve, so that's one possibility. If I stay with Mandrake (which is where I'm