Of course Stormix for SCSI installs is really bad. And it locks up hard on some systems because they compile in support for old proprietary cd-roms in their boot media. The look and feel of storm Linux OTOH is very nice for the newbie. Just wish they had gone with Windowmaker instead of KDE (or was it Gnome) I can't remember what they used when I installed it.
Andrew
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-----Original Message-----
From: jpb [mailto:jpb@creol.ucf.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 12:33 PM
To: Debian User list
Subject: Re: Learning Linux
Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote:
> > Red Hat is more automated than Debian, so the initial set up would be
> > easier with Red Hat. However, Debian gives you more control and the
> > chance to understand what's going on in more detail.
>
> Most people coming from Windows world, prefer SuSE to RedHat, but I´ve
> read, that Mandrake and Corel Linux are easier to handle for a newbie
> than SuSE. Debian is something for people who want to jump into the cold
> water and learn heavily right from the beginning. Slackware seems to be
> more for hardcore people. I cannot say anything about the different
Let me put in a plug for stormix here - also debian based, but it just
feels better integrated with straight debian then corel does. I've
helped a few people do corel installs (they wanted an easier installer)
and in the end they ended up switching to stormix because of problems
when they tried to add non-corel debs (mostly kde based stuff) to their
corel systems.
Now whenever I have to help someone non-technical set up a linux box I
start them with stormix and then update their /etc/apt/sources.list and
apt-get update;apt-get upgrade
Your mileage may vary of course.
jpb
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