[plug] Linux Versions

[Trent Lloyd]

At 08:59 PM 6/03/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>What follows is 100% pure opinion - send abuse directly to me, not to the
same for me...

>list:
>
>Debian is the best distribution.
i also agree with this, once you become more of a guru Debian is pretty 
sleek (unless you do linuxfromscratch like me... :])


>However RedHat or Mandrake may be easier to get started with because they
>take less knowledge to install. I started with Redhat and changed to Debian
>and that worked out pretty good for me.
yes, for "newbies" Mandrake is probably the Best, followed by Moving to 
Redhat which is a bit more advanced.


>There are two packaging systems:
>
>RPM - used by Redhat.
>DEB - used by Debian.

DEB's just own :) hehehehe


>It's usually easier to get dependencies right with DEBs than RPMs.  However
>if you install Redhat (and I understand Mandrake is the same) then you can
>just tell it to install everything and it all pretty much works.
>
>Anthony
>
>On Wednesday 06 March 2002 07:29, David White wrote:
> > What different Linux Versoins are thier and what is the best??
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >

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