On Monday 03 December 2007 22:03, John Boyle wrote: > To Users and James Knott: What is your opinion of Red Hat 8?
A little dated now. (2002) Why not go for something more modern? You are likely to have problems with drivers for all sorts of equipment if you go for a distro as old as that. And Red Hat is no longer in the personal business. It sells, mainly support, to corporate bodies as RHEL. (Red Hat Enterprise Linux.) But if you favour Red Hat, why not go for White Box, CentOS or Fedora? They are all very much the same as Red Hat. Fedora is cutting edge and is ahead of RHEL (it is the development of the Red Hat desktop side). The other two are solid, reliable and about six weeks or a little more behind Red Hat. White Box is WBEL - White Box Enterprise Linux - and I see CentOS as being more for the desktop, but there is not much in it. There is nothing wrong with Red Hat - it's great - but it costs (unnecessary if you are a private individual and not a corporation) money. The other 3 are free. Having said all that, I personally use Debian. ;-) Etch, not Lenny - I am cautious by nature! HTH Lisi > I am about > to get back into Linux, even without the voice dictation, so I would > like to know from someone who knows Linux. :-[ > > James Knott wrote: > > aleex zim wrote: > >> hello Mr.Krause Thank you for answering pls.inform me what is the best > >> ersion of linux for a newcomer/ there are a lot of them (red hat, > >> mandrake etc and where it is bestto get it? rgds > > > > Define "best". > > > > A popular distro for beginners is Ubuntu. However, the version of > > OpenOffice that comes with it apparently has some problems, so you may > > want to install the one from www.openoffice.org, instead of the one that > > comes with it. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
