by Allen J. D. Vailliencour » Fri, 10 Jul 1998 04:00:00
Hi!
I'm about to venture into the wonderful world of Linux and am wondering
what distribution I should install. I've read about most of them
(Redhat, Debian, S.U.S.E, etc) but I thought to ask everyone here what
they think is the*best* distribution.
Thanks!
~Allen
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Internet Administrator
Bob Jones University
www.bju.edu
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by Brian Mill » Fri, 10 Jul 1998 04:00:00
This thread gets rehased every few weeks in this newsgroup.Quote:>I'm about to venture into the wonderful world of Linux and am wondering
>what distribution I should install. I've read about most of them
>(Redhat, Debian, S.U.S.E, etc) but I thought to ask everyone here what
>they think is the*best* distribution.
Good Luck,
Brian
http://rickjames.sapien.net/
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by Daniel Lanice » Fri, 10 Jul 1998 04:00:00
>I'm about to venture into the wonderful world of Linux and am wondering
>what distribution I should install. I've read about most of them
>(Redhat, Debian, S.U.S.E, etc) but I thought to ask everyone here what
>they think is the*best* distribution.
>Thanks!
>~Allen
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Internet Administrator
>Bob Jones University
>www.bju.edu
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There are also a lot of Slackware users out there. Slackware was my first
Linux system. It's definitely a good one, but I found the installation a
little difficult (but them again, that was several years ago).
Caldera is more for businesses and not really geared towards home use. I
installed it, tried it, and didn't like it. But who knows, you might?
As for the others, I haven't tried them.
Good luck,
Daniel
by Allan Evan » Sat, 11 Jul 1998 04:00:00
This isn`t an appropriate question to be asking as you`ll receiveQuote:> Hi!
> I'm about to venture into the wonderful world of Linux and am wondering
> what distribution I should install. I've read about most of them
> (Redhat, Debian, S.U.S.E, etc) but I thought to ask everyone here what
> they think is the*best* distribution.
by Brian v/d Westhuiz » Sat, 11 Jul 1998 04:00:00
my 2c
i loaded redhat and then just for the fun did slackware. Found it to
be much closer to Solaris wich i use at work.
Directory layout and device files very simular...
>>Hi!
>>I'm about to venture into the wonderful world of Linux and am wondering
>>what distribution I should install. I've read about most of them
>>(Redhat, Debian, S.U.S.E, etc) but I thought to ask everyone here what
>>they think is the*best* distribution.
>>Thanks!
>>~Allen
>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>Internet Administrator
>>Bob Jones University
>>www.bju.edu
>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>I've tried 3 different flavors of Linux and for beginners I'd recommend
>RedHat. The installation is the easiest I've seen and the manual for 5.1 is
>very helpful. I personally use RedHat now and I'm very pleased with it.
>There are also a lot of Slackware users out there. Slackware was my first
>Linux system. It's definitely a good one, but I found the installation a
>little difficult (but them again, that was several years ago).
>Caldera is more for businesses and not really geared towards home use. I
>installed it, tried it, and didn't like it. But who knows, you might?
>As for the others, I haven't tried them.
>Good luck,
>Daniel
by Coli » Sat, 11 Jul 1998 04:00:00
by Allen J. D. Vailliencour » Tue, 14 Jul 1998 04:00:00
Thanks for all the great info regarding this!
I definately am going to go with Linux to learn it and all that jazz. :)
~Allen
> >I'm about to venture into the wonderful world of Linux and am wondering
> >what distribution I should install. I've read about most of them
> >(Redhat, Debian, S.U.S.E, etc) but I thought to ask everyone here what
> >they think is the*best* distribution.
> It depends what *you* want to do with Linux. More importantly, how much
> time are you willing to spend configuring your computer? How much do you
> want to learn about the internals of Linux/Unix?
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