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Favorite linux flavor anyone?

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Master of Reality:
you probably accidentally selected german...
When i installed redhat i chose to install everything and got about a gig of language files and programs in other languages.

dwar:
Thats the funny part, I chose english and it installed the german man files. This was a while ago though.. SuSE is made in germany, so I expected some of that anyways hehe.

Just to add, I was looking at slackware's website and didn't really see any section for security. I heard that on mandrake, you have something where it automatically updates security issues? Is that true, and is it the same for slackware? I always have to goto the freebsd site when i get security announcements, and if it affects the programs that i'm running i usually just get the patch/work-around.

[ May 24, 2002: Message edited by: dwar ]

preacher:
Mandrake does indeed have an automatic security update feature. I choose to apply security changes myself, so I dont use it. Also Mandrake comes with Bastille, which is a pretty good security utility for beginners, or those who want to set up security and firewalling as quickly as possible.

Heru:
May favorite Linux distros are: Mandrake, Slackware, and SuSE in that order.

IMO: Mandrake is great for begginners and is a general purpose distro.  Slack is more advanced and has no wizards(except thos in KDE or Gnome), and tends to run faster, but only supports install scripts or installing from source(no rpm's or deb's).  SuSe is like Mandrake but far more bloated and slower, it seems more geared towards home bussinesses to me.

dwar:
I've always been a fan of cherry =) I don't think i'd run redhat, i ran it for a while 4-5 years ago and didn't like it.

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