My experience with Linux began May 9th, last year, with an RH 5.0 CD
from the back of the book, "Learn Linux is 24 hours." I have been
programming in the DOS-Win$ world since 1982. If it were not for the
assistance of that book I would not have remained with Linux and I would
have missed out on the best OS since sliced cheese. RH 5.0 installed
from my ATAPI CDROM at bootup. The book was only an intro to Linux and
left alot out. Later I purchased the full package of RH 5.2, which also
installed from CDROM bootup. The manual, however, was TARGETED exactly
at RH and offered a lot more specific help. I purchased "Running Linux"
(2nd edition) and got a lot more info specific to Linux and not to any
particular distro.
But, in my experience, it is a lot easier using a distro when you have
ITS manual at hand than trying to adjust a generic command to a specific
flavor.
Also, SuSE's YaST is easier to use when you have the manual, and no one
else documents it, or SaX, or the other specific tools that SuSE has
added to the distro which makes it stand out above the others. IMHO.
Jerry
Mike Payson wrote:
>
> I *really* think they're making a big mistake with this pricing structure.
> Sure I want to support them, but when I can order the CD direct from
> LinuxCentral for $2.00 (plus S&H), it's hard to justify $35. True, you
> only get 1 CD instead of 5. True, you don't get the manual. But, once you
> have the manual, you don't need a new one every 6 months (unless they are
> upgraded more then I suspect they are), and you probably won't install 80%
> of the apps on the later CDs anyway-- and those you want you can go ahead
> & download.
>
> I do want to support S.u.S.E. Having just recently started using v5.3, I'm
> VERY impressed. It was simple to install, reasonably easy to configure, &
> certainly more pleasant to use then Win95. But, as I said before, I think
> they should seriously look at offering a reasonably cheap (~$20) upgrade
> path. Otherwise, only a very small percentage of users will bother with
> buying upgrades & will just download them or get the knock-offs from
> resellers.
>
> Mike
>
>
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