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Which is best?

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Calum:
i didn't mean to be negative in that last post of mine there,

i would say mandrake, red hat and probably suse, are at least as easy to use as windows.

Installation, of the system and of programs, is however a bit harder than windows.

This is fine if you are just a user of a system, but if you own the machine, you will probably be system admin as well, ie you must keep your own config files up to date and know how to install and uninstall stuff.

Luckily there's a lot of easy to use documentation about system admin of linux and GNU, so if you can be arsed to look something up whenever there's an admin job to be done, then you're good to go. In that case you may as well get one of the major distros since the actual user part is a lot more stable than windows, and as i say is as easy to use.

If you buy a licence from a main vendor like red hat or mandrake, you can be entitled to all sorts of tech support as well, for added benefit if you are having problems with the system admin part...

WaWAR_FA:
i got mandrake 8.1 redhat 7 and 7.1 and have never been able to quite figure them out.

im a noob at this stuff.

which os is noob friendliest?

choasforages:
hmmmm, the one that you buy a book for/*i know i siad it someplace else too, buts it vital to have a good linux book to start with*/

TheQuirk:

quote:Originally posted by WaWAR_FA:
i recently heard something about AOL and red hat getting together and putting out an OS.

the reliability of redhat with the ease of use of AOL.

its linux for retards.    :eek:        :eek:  
--- End quote ---


It was just a rumor.. AOL was actually going to use Red Hat on their new servers, so they met up, and people started a rumor. And it's pretty old news, too..

[ June 30, 2002: Message edited by: TheQuirk ]

WaWAR_FA:
ok, ive now been forced to use xp on this piece of shit box.  i know exactly what you guys mean when you say crashes.  i goint to get my webcam and point to at teh monitor while i use my laptop to record video.  this thing goesdown like every 30 seconds!!

anybody got a copy of redhat 7.3 they could mail me? ill pay postage.

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