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Master of Reality:

quote:Originally posted by Doctor V 0.8.7:
For a first time user, mandrake.  If you have a bit more experience using *nix, RedHat.

V
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havent you tried redhat 8.0!!!!!!!!!! Its better  than mandrake for new users.
 
quote: I am greedy. I selected each and every package that came with RedHat 8.0
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so did i.

DC:

quote:Originally posted by The Master of Reality / B0B:
meh... you just gotta shut off some of the daemons....

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So they're enabled by default. That's a security risk in my book. If you don't need it, make sure it *never* sets itself on - that means always disable by default (you can always set it on without problem, setting it off *might* be to late - or you can forget it. You never forget to set something on, since otherwise it won't work. Setting something off has no direct noticable effect).
 
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do a custem install and read what every single fucking package is before deselcting/selecting it like i did about 20 fucking times when i started using Linux. It took me about 3-16 hours for each install but it was worth it.
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I'd advice this as well - problem is that the choice is simply overwhelming. I had no idea which one of the 10 or so IRC clients I wanted to install on my first Linux setup.

Doctor V:

quote:Originally posted by The Master of Reality / B0B:

havent you tried redhat 8.0!!!!!!!!!! Its better than mandrake for new users.
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I did try it, briefly.  here are the major differences I noted.  Mandrake detected the windows partitions on my drive, and made it very very easy to set up a dual boot.  Red Hat did not, I had to use fdisk manually, and I never got lilo to work properly (will try again tonight).  I personally hate having to double click to open things, thats the M$ way.  I know this is easy to change, and maybe good for a new Lin user.  Anyways, RH does look alot better, and probably functions better too (I'll know more about this in coming weeks).

Off that topic, I have been thinking of doing a full install of RH8.  Some say that a full install is going to be a terrible waste of space, but how about for someone who will use the computer as both a server and a desktop.  Then there are dependancies.  I figure you may as well install everything in case somthin you want to install later needs a certain file you otherwise would not have installed.  Then, although a full install would take alot of space, it shouldn't affect performance at all.  I have an 80Gig HD, space shouldn't be a problem.

V

voidmain:
Go ahead and do a full install if you want to play with everything the distro comes with. It will *not* make your machine slower by installing everything. It is true that there are some services I would turn off if you have your machine directly connected to the internet but if you are behind a firewall like most people that use Linux are they aren't a risk.

In fact there aren't any glaring holes in anything that is turned on by default it's just that you shouldn't expose things that you aren't using. For instanace, turn off the NFS and portmapper stuff for sure if you are not going to use it (I do periodically use NFS for testing so I just turn the services back on when I want to use NFS).

I personally always do a "custom" install and install *almost* everything. There are a few things that I don't install like Emacs and Tex. And on my Athlon the entire install only totalled around 30 minutes from the time I stuck the first of the 3 CDs I used in the drive until had the last unused service turned off after my one and only reboot when the install completed.

Master of Reality:
I install everything because i am too lazy to sort through packagesin my old age... and i want to try everything out.

I finally got the first two CDs for RH8.0 burnt properly (I had to punk a CD/R off a fiend). Now i gotta buy or punk another CD to burn Disc 3 onto.

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