Re: It's all so confusing, so should I get a CD Distribution?
G'day
>1) Would you recommend a distribution disk for a newbie?
>
>2) Are there different ones to get? <what are the differences?>
>
>3) I know this is a Debian list, but do you recommend Debian for
>user-friendliness? What are its advantages/disadv. ? I read an article about
>Red Hat being good, but it's expensive (£50 = $85)
Well, I have now installed both RedHat 4.2 and Debian 1.3, and found them
both pretty easy to install (actually, debian was a bit of a pain, but only
because I was using an old laptop with a small HD and no CD-ROM!), and if I
had to install one again, i think i'd probably go with debian...
Redhat is pretty easy to install, but it seems to me (even tho I've only
been using Linux for a few months) that the guts of Debian is a little
easier to get a hand on than RedHat... RedHat has some nice X-Windows
configuration tools, but using them you never really learn what's going on,
and changing something by hand then becomes quite difficuly...
>4) Can I dual-boot Windows NT and Debian?
Yes, you certainly can... My system boots between RedHat, Win95 and WinNT4.
There is actually a HOWTO that describes how to add Linux to the NT boot
loader, which it pretty cool :)
NTFS support in Linux is still a little shakey (seems to work, but i
wouldn't want to bet important data on it)
YMMV, but I tended to find that Linux was easist to set up on a disk by
itself (that's if you have a HD to spare...) but lots of ppl seem to be
using dual-boot systems, so I guess it can't be too hard!
Anyway, hope that helped a little...
damon
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