On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 01:12:12PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm a pretty big newbie, here's what I did. > > 1st distro - Yellow Dog Linux - REALLY easy to install (Uses Anaconda > Installer, the whole distro is basicly Red Hat PPC) > 2nd distro - Debian Stable - Fairly easy to install and use. The > installer was kind of a let down after using graphical anaconda, but > once it was installed it was "pretty"
So, I've got a question for you. It seems all RPM/other binary package repositories are x86 only. Is this true? Does it make life hard for non-x86 system administrators? Now, back to the thread, I had a simmilar experience with one of my friends, who was having a lot of problems with his computer which I thought was spyware, so I gave him a knoppix CD, and soon he was telling me how superior to windows it was, (at least the KDE desktop he was looking at). After having tried Mandrake and Fedora on the same laptop, and finally realizing how stupid I was not to recognize that it had a serious hardware problem, as memtest confirmed, I must say that the fedora installer handled the errors much more gracefully whereas the mandrake one just hung. It's not the memory that's bad because we got a new DIMM with the same kind of errors. Anybody know what to do with a laptop when it corrupts the memory? Do you just sell it for parts? Justin ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
