Hie thee to the HCL

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Post #24,009

by pwhysall

1/12/02 5:07:36 AM

Hie thee to the HCL

For whatever distro it is you're using.

This way, you don't disappoint yourself.

Distro choice is a very personal thing: personally, I lean towards Red Hat Linux, as I find it less cluttered than Mandrake; Karsten will encourage you to use Debian; Scott will prod you in the direction of SuSE, and Bill runs Mandrake.

My ultimate piece of advice on which distro would be "whatever your most knowledgeable friend is running", hardware issues notwithstanding.

Peter
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Post #24,116

by a6l6e6x

1/13/02 12:00:57 AM

Just to plug Red Hat a bit.

This past Thursday, the Charlotte LUG had a guy from Red Hat talk to us. (It's under a 3 hour drive to Durham).

It looks like Red Hat has been paying attention to folks like Karsten who talk about Debian and "apt-get". With release 8.0 of Red Hat they will have a similar function. RPMs also will be more sane in their dependency handling and more like .debs are used. You heard it here first!

Also, something I never knew, is that the Red Hat Network (RHN) is free for the first machine that you register, even if you downloaded the CD ISO images and paid nothing to Red Hat. RHN is used to get bug fixes. RHN maintains an Oracle database of your system's RPMs. Also they plan to have a proxy RHN service where the RPMs are on a local server but the RHN database is still at Red Hat. This is of use to an Enterprise network of RH Linux machines and reduces internet traffic. Finally, the entire RHN including the Oracle database will be a product for sale.

Alex

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

Naive pre-newbie question - (Silverlock) - (10) - Jan. 11, 2002, 11:41:28 AM EST

SuSE over Mandrake IMO - (admin) - (6) - Jan. 11, 2002, 11:46:17 AM EST

Actually, - (Steven A S) - (5) - Jan. 11, 2002, 01:14:47 PM EST

What Compaq laptop issue? - (bepatient) - (3) - Jan. 11, 2002, 01:16:50 PM EST

Re: What Compaq laptop issue? - (Steven A S) - (2) - Jan. 11, 2002, 01:23:11 PM EST

Well thats why... - (bepatient) - (1) - Jan. 11, 2002, 02:28:15 PM EST

I'll have to second your second note - (Steven A S) - Jan. 15, 2002, 07:25:00 AM EST

Re: Actually, - (Steve Lowe) - Jan. 11, 2002, 01:22:45 PM EST

Beware Mandrake's text installer - (scoenye) - Jan. 11, 2002, 01:43:05 PM EST

Hie thee to the HCL - (pwhysall) - (1) - Jan. 12, 2002, 05:07:36 AM EST

Just to plug Red Hat a bit. - (a6l6e6x) - Jan. 13, 2002, 12:00:57 AM EST

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