[plug] Distributions (again)

[Robert Potter]

At 10:13 19/03/99 +0000, you wrote:
>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.
>
As a new user I would agree RH5.2 is very nice.  I've set up a couple of
boxes now as dual boot and letting RH do the install and put LILO into the
MBR was very straightforward.  Even when the XFree86 didn't support my
Matrox G200 it was a simple job to download the .rpm files and upgrade to
3.3.3.3.3.3.3.  (Big thanks to all the PLUGgers who replied to someone
elses query about the G200)  

Biggest job I've had is configuring dial-up-networking using PPP - which
still isn't working, but that's got more to do with my trying to figure out
what the Murdoch dial-up server is expecting than anything else I think.

Of course, without trying anything else my two bobs worth is worth just
about that (for those of you not old enough - two bob is probably 25
cents), but hey, everyone else gets their saay - why not me ;-)

Rob