re: slashdot poll
I thought I would input my couple of pence worth to this
discussion. I am very much a Linux newbie but I am not exactly
an idiot when it comes to computers. I have been using computers
for 10 years going back to my humble XT.
I have recently installed RH5.1, SuSE 5.3 and Deb 2.0 and I
would like to comment a bit about each of them.
1stly both RH and SuSE made a mess of my hard disk when
partitioning causing me to play safe and use partition magic to
do the bsiness untill I am confident with Linux
I am using Deb on a Logical partition and a boot manager to
dual boot with Win98( I was using NT as it ran a my some of my
programs batter than 98). Both RH and SuSE had no problems
setting up my lilo.conf to work with this system. Unless I have
missed it Deb install dosent do this it only allows for a
primary partition to be activated. Needless to say using a
floppy to boot and then writing a lil.conf file is no picnic for
a newbie luckiy I had a copy of Que Using Linux(far to much RH
for my liking) which had a sample conf file which worked with
out a hitch.
SuSE's Yast informed me half-way through installing packages
that the partition was full and I was unable to proceed without
re partitioning and re-installing. Now I do not know wether
Dselect can do this but it would be nice if it estimated the
space needed to install packages and reported any problems.
RH ran fine when I got it installed but SuSE kept locking up for
periods of 20 sec when it was executing a program. I am using
Debian now as a friend recommended it as the most stable. It is
a very steep learning curve but I will stick it out and some day
I will say goodbye to win/dos for good.
Noel
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