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choasforages:
hmmm, the advatages i find of redhat is that when i pluged my dad's digital camera in the usb port. and ran gtkam non root it worked. and it comes with kde 3. slackware 8.1 should kick rituouse ass, i just have to install it know.


PS. hey voidmain, you seem to know these things. why      is ext3 the default on most linux distro's when XFS is under gpl. i find that messed up that sgi does a bit of kernel work and makes free there high-end filesytem.

Lloydr:

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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actually the mirrors for redhat 7.3 are pretty common if your within the U.S. but if ur in some poor @$$ country then ur screwed....i got all 3 install discs off the NOAA FTP mirror within about hour and half.....very fast DSL tweaked with Linux Redhat 7.2 helps lol.... it's really easy and fast to get it off any U.S. .edu college or one of the .gov government ftps (ps i got mine about 1 or 2 days after 7.3 was released so the ftps were pretty loaded up) i had em d/l and burned probaly about 2 hours or so start to finish burning a really deep burn but still semi fast at 4X(1X or 2X is preferred for a very strong and deep burn lol....last longer....also use Verbatim cd-rs...or TDK) l8r

[ June 20, 2002: Message edited by: RedHat SeaWolf ]

Calum:

quote:Topic: what distros have what advantages?
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Very clever! this is a good way to get around the "what's the best distro?" dilemma. Ask that and you might as well never read the replies! phrased this way though, you might get a lot of good answers!

May i say, i have tried red hat 7.0, mandrake 8.0 and 8.2, and turbolinux 6.1

turbolinux was a little bit different from the others, and i never got to play with it for long. It comes with a few different packages and is mainly aimed at businesses in Australasia, particularly Japan, China, New Zealand and Australia. It was okay, might throw you for a minute if you've been red hatting though.

mandrake. 8.0 was a bitch to set up on my laptop, just like red hat 7.0, but when working they both acted as expected. Red hat and mandrake are very similar to one another, maybe having a different "feel". Some glitches and bugs in these systems can probably be attributed to hardware. In red hat 7.0 i had to use GNOME due to mouse problems in KDE.

Mandrake 8.2, what i am using now. If i use GNOME (1,4) i get those exact same mouse problems! KDE 2.4 is okay though (still a glitch or two though, same ones, i suspect buggy hardware), XFce which i hadn't used before is excellent and glitchless. Mucho packages come free with both red hat and mandrake. XBill is notable by it's absence, in Mandrake, also, mandrake irritatingly does not install "make" by default unless you select "developer tools" during install, and does not install pine by default at all! (even though it's on the CD!) why? it's necessary! again, mucho free programs, bluefish, many text editors, media players and cd recorder frontends. several versions of emacs and vi included.

That's my thoughts on distros/features...

choasforages:
slackware 8.1 has just pissed me off, gone with the tradational color.gz initrd, you have to use some odd ass fubar way of doing it. this only affects people doing nfs installs through a loopback iso or who can't boot off of a cd but have a cd drive i think

badkarma:
SuSE 8.0 can be installed and configured by any monkey who can type and click, imho it's the best choice for a linux desktop (especially for bussinesses because of the plethora of supplied software)

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