[plug] RedHat/Mandrake

[NVT Australia]

Hi Beau

Thanks for the kind offer. If Slackware 8 is in the wind I will wait to
avoid the culture shock. Do think the version 8 will have a good GUI
interface for us newbies?

Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: Beau Kuiper [mailto:kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au]
Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 6:37 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: RE: [plug] RedHat/Mandrake


Hi,

My slackware is a little old (7.0), and slackware isn't really designed
for the beginner (unless you like steep learning curves, and doing
everything with minimal software support, no package system, and no fancy
configuration systems)

Slackware 8 should be good once it's done.

but if you still want to play with slackware, just email me, and I can
provide disks and the software updates I have done on CD (Xfree 4.0.1,
KDE2.1, linux 2.2.19, ect)

Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, NVT Australia wrote:

> Oooh sounds interesting.
>
> Where can we find a copy of slackware for a look?
>
> Greg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Beau Kuiper [mailto:kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 5:54 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: RE: [plug] RedHat/Mandrake
>
>
> Evil laugh,
>
> Both redhat and mandrake suck :-)
>
> Redhat feels clunky in operation, mandrake is worse and just often doesn't
> work at all.
>
> The only distribution I have been happy with is slackware.
>
> There thats my opionon. As you can see, we all love/like different
> distributions, and will defend our choices/opinions to the edge of the
> universe (if not far beyond). So the best advice I can give is to find
> some time and try several of them to find which is the best for YOU.
>
> If you don't have time to do this, then the distribution you choose is not
> going to matter too much. Most of them are similar, and you are not going
> to have time to worry about the differences between them anyway.
>
> Beau Kuiper
> kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au
>
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, NVT Australia wrote:
>
> > As a Newbie checking them all......
> >
> > I installed Red Hat 7.1, Mandrake 8, Debian 2.2R3 (oh headache), Corel
Ed
> 2
> > and Suse 7.1 and even though I am pretty green I found Red Hat 7.1 was
so
> > easy to install and looks very clean to work with. Most features of the
OP
> > SYS were really well laid out.
> >
> > My vote goes to Red Hat 7.1.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> >
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