Re: information request
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 06:34:36PM -0500, ktb wrote:
> It is said and repeated like a mantra. Debian's install keeps getting
> easier and people keep repeating that exact same thing. It's not *that*
> hard to install. There is also Progeny. It has an even easier install
> than debian and for all practical purposes is debian. Why no
> recommendation for that distro? People always assume that a newbie wants
> the easiest route to linux. I don't know why people assume that.
> kent
This is exactly what I think. I still consider myself more or less
newbie, I started using SuSE (6.dunno), and read online tutorials. But most
of the time those tutorials did not apply to my system, either because of
SuSE's violation of the Linux file hierarchy recommendations (not to mention
its central config file rc.config) or because you could do it with yast.
Buy a debian-based distro like progeny with good documentation or try the
"real" debian. However, I think it's really important to have a good
printed-out documentation you can rely on for the first steps in Linuxland.
Now I'm proudly running woody, and I can say that I have gathered some
knowledge about Linux, that I probably wouldn't have gathered if'd used
Suse Linux.
but again, just my 2 cents...
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