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Pastimes : Linux OS.: Technical questions -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: At_The_Ask who wrote (323)	11/19/2002 2:33:01 PM
From: Elsewhere	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 484

I see a lot of redhat talk. Is that the best flavor to use? The beauty of a Linux distribution is in the eye of the beholder. It depends on what you want, how much time and money you want to spend. In North America Red Hat has the highest market share, in Europe SuSE. Another popular end user distribution is Mandrake. Developers prefer Debian. Real hardcore Linux users build their own distribution from scratch. So just try any distribution, decide if you like it, if yes, stick with it, if no switch to another one. Each one has its advantages and disadvantages. Why build a Linux box? Why not just add a Linux partition to your existing PC? Or, if you just want a test drive, try Knoppix: knopper.net Just download the CD image, burn and boot from it. After 2 min you have a complete Linux environment to play around with. Good luck!

To: At_The_Ask who wrote (323)	11/20/2002 11:57:04 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 484

I've used several distributions over the ten years I run linux boxes. I always come back to redhat. I run my URL watman.com on redhat and I run a mirror server out of my house. acute.ath.cx They are both running redhat 7.3. All distributions have improved but I was very impressed with the 7.3 install on my home server. And for the last 8 years I've used the same linux window manager.... watman.com And then there is the linux portable. watman.com #reply-17610049 2.7 COOL REALLY COOL. The original boot on this system was on hda the first ide disk of the master controller. I have add a SIIG model cn2487 ata133 controller that has two WD 120 gid ata133 drives attached as master and slave on the first channel of the card. The install has detected the the controller and the drives and calls them hde and hdf THIS IS COOL REALLY COOL. and my root partion is /dev/hde1 2.8 I used fdisk to set up hde and hdf. I created 3 partition on both drives. a 10 gig, a 1 gig swap and remainder 100+ gig.

To: At_The_Ask who wrote (323)	11/21/2002 8:29:18 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 484

Slackware is the easiest to install. It is also a lot less arcane than the other distros (BSD scripting for server maintenance is WAY easier. ) and it has fewer bugs. I have some complaints about its distro in some areas, but more complaints about the Hat and Caldera and (yuck) Debian. The Hat will eat about 3.5 billion bytes of your disk with a full install last I checked. Slackware is still about one billion, maybe a bit less. There are far fewer slackware devotees (It was the first full working linux system as far as I know) but that is because few people have common sense. I will admit that the chapeau rouge has far more advanced GUI approach but its GUI is some maze to get all together. I also disagree with the Hat's bleeding edge approach with compilers and such. Simplest is best. At least give slack a try. Slack has a good package manager in pkgtool, which I find A LOT easier to use to install and de-install programs than rpm. (sheesh!) It uses slack-type *.tgz files. One warning is that with some programs it is advised to get the version from the slack site. Slack is not as advanced in libraries and such as the other distros. I do not view this as a disadvantage actually execpt it is frustrating to see some applications people saying that they only distribute or guarantee their software on Red Hat or Solaris. Very narrow of them. Slack is the most Unix-like of all the Linuxes. slackware.com It you were running a server. Run slackware. There is no advantage to running the Hat in that. Program development and stuff. Maybe Debian. Workstation? Hat, Suse. Mandrake I hear is good. Have not tried it. EC<:-}