[plug] Distributions (again)

[Oliver White]

I would certainly suggest Red Hat 5.2 for any new user, I found debian to have
just that little bit of extra complexity that might put such a user off. That
said, I'm now moving over to Debian 2.1.

"Rick (VK6EP)" wrote:

> A distro war!!!  All that passion, eh..
>
> Tell you what I will do, I'll put my experiences on this group. I've had a
> bash at red-hat and caldera now. Neither of which I am real excited about.
> When I've had a go with SuSE, I'll be in a position, as a newbie, to advise
> on the easiest install.
>
> I know that an easy install doesn't necessarily make a good distro, but, if
> they can get that right, perhaps the rest will be easier too??
>
> At 03:56  19/03/99 +0800, you wrote:
> >I feel like a distro war how bout you ?
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-plug at linux.org.au [mailto:owner-plug at linux.org.au]On Behalf
> >> Of Rick (VK6EP)
> >> Sent: Friday, March 19, 1999 3:02 PM
> >> To: plug at linux.org.au
> >> Subject: Re: [plug] X/SiS 6326
> >>
> >>
> >> It's my understanding that SuSE have a driver for that chip. I've tried,
> >> without success, to install Caldera 1.3. It works fine in the shell, but
> >> has no drivers for X. Guess I'll have to try SuSE. Plan to do that anyway,
> >> so no great shakes.
> >>
> >> Only installed Caldera as it came with my book, 'the absolute
> >> idiot's guide
> >> to linux'. Now, all I have to do is get a real distro. (OK guys, settle)
> >>
> >>
> >> At 03:51  15/03/99 +0000, you wrote:
> >> >Connell wrote:
> >> >> Has anyone run X on a SIS 6326 video card?
> >> >
> >> >Sounds like the driver is not quite right. Is there a driver for a more
> >> >primitive version of the same chipset that you could try? If the card
> >> >claims VESA 2 compliance, you might like to try running it through the
> >> >FrameBuffer driver instead of directly.
> >> >
> >> >> The reset button is the only escape.
> >> >
> >> >Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't work?
> >> >
> >> >--
> >> >The system runs with NT 3.51, service pack 5. At now, we have no idea
> >> >why.
> >> >            -- out of context; from a mailing list
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Rick
> >>
> >> E=Mail    - rickd at iinet.net.au
> >> Home Page - http://opera.iinet.net.au/~rickd/index.html
> >>
> >
> >
>
> Cheers
> Rick
>
> E=Mail    - rickd at iinet.net.au
> Home Page - http://opera.iinet.net.au/~rickd/index.html