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what distros have what advantages?
Chooco:
most of these replies are about how they got RedHat and not off the official site..
come on guys don't dump on my threat here lol. slackware couldn't detect my ethernet card :(
Calum:
the three replies before your one were about what distro has the best features, actually, now you have irrelevated your own topic! and incidentally you have also said slackware didn't work, thereby negating one of the legitimate replies. Just thought you should know! :D
Master of Reality:
quote:Originally posted by Chooco:
if you got to redhat.com and go to download, select RedHat7.3 it brings you to this page here:
http://www.redhat.com/download/rhlinux73.html
and there's only 1 site listed.
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goto my link and it will show all the mirror sites for the iso. There is only one link to download directly from redhat.com
Master of Reality:
quote:Originally posted by Chooco:
let's take some common distros and compare:
-Mandrake (8.2 don't work for me so i'll say 8.0 because it does)
-RedHat 7.1 (there's only 1 mirror for 7.3 so it's virtualy impossible to DL within 1 year)
-Suse (whatever the latest one is)
-Lycoris (latest one)
what advantage does each one have? i've tried Mandrake and Redhat so far. Mandrake seems a lot easier to configure stuff in terms of a control panel in KDE
what do the others have?
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Mandrake is a newbified Red Hat (in my opinion, of course). It is a bit more user friendly but your not as much in control.
Redhat is good for general use, most people like Red Hat. It is easy to install the RPMs, but it doesnt have a nice package manager like Slackware/Debian. RH7.3 is good becuase it comes with KDE3, which is awesome. But you can always dl it and install it on anything else.
I liked Slackware, because I was in complete control.... But i was only using it from the command-line. Slackware's installer was 'simpler' than Debians.
I only tried FreeBSD for a couple seconds on my server a litle while after starting to use Red HAt, and it confused me so I switched my server to Red HAt.
[ June 20, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]
hoojchoons:
Well, I've been using Linux since '98. So far I've used SuSE Linux 6.3, 7.1, 7.3 and I'm now using version 8.0. I've also used RedHat Linux 6.0, 7.1 and Mandrake's versions 8.1 and 8.2.
I have to admit that I'm a SuSE and a RedHat fan but I don't like Mandrake. Although it's really based on RedHat and it has an incredibly easy installer, it doesn't let you take full control of your system. Depends really on how you see it. If one is a newbie in Linux one should try Mandrake or Lycoris Desktop LX first (even more newbie friendly). On the contrary if you're a *NIX veteran you should try Debian or Slackware. I place myself somewhere in the middle.
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