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Best Linux?
psyjax:
I would venture RedHat 9, as a great newbie distro. It's a great distro overal.
Tho it seems RedHat is gonna discontinue support for it. But you can download the ISO's still, and I think you will be able to grab enterprise linux of their FTP as well....
So ya, RedHat 9, I would say. I think it's more stable than Mandrake as well.
Enmity:
I think you're better off trying some live-CDs first (those are the only things I'm confident at )
Knoppix
Damn Small Linux (works on older machines)
Slackware-live
Get to know them first.
As to a permanent distro, I'd recommend Mandrake, cause I have it only
Refalm:
quote:RIAA_blows: Also, the LG issue - is there a fix for it yet? I have an LG CD-ROM and don't want it fried :(
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So many posts, and no-one has answered your question . Herre it is. You can find the patch for your dirrty LG drive in thurr.
preacher:
quote:Originally posted by psyjax: plain 'ol psyjax:
So ya, RedHat 9, I would say. I think it's more stable than Mandrake as well.
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i dont know what you are talking about more stable. Mandrake is like a rock, it never crashes. My old Mandrake linux webserver/desktop machine had an uptime of well over 200 days before I moved. This was on a machine that I used every day for things like bzflag and as a pc for testing my java skills. My current Mandrake desktop machine has an uptime of 50 days. Might I add that I play rtcw and enemy territory daily, and I never log out of X. This is the most stable linux Ive used.
I also dont understand why some people say it is buggy. I dont have application crashes due to bugs, although some bugs have been found, it was in the same apps that Red Hat uses, and the few bugs that are found on mandrake are fixed pretty quickly.
Applications on Red Hat 8.0 on the other hand have been prone to crash on me quite often, but this is the old version, maybe Red Hat fixed these problems. Ive heard other complaints about 8.0 so maybe that was a bad version in general. Also I dont like Bluecurve, but that is just a preference. Im more into extreme desktop reconstruction, which is easy with any distro.
insomnia:
quote:Originally posted by Linux User #5225982375:
Debian - I would use and recommend debian, but it is a pain in the ass to set up. It is also extremely outdated, unless you use the "unstable" branch, which I couldn't get to install.
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Their will be a Debian release with redhat's Anaconda installer. ;)
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200310/msg01880.html
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