RE: Takin' the plunge...
I'm was in a similar position a year or so back. I used Red Hat for a while
and I must say the install for Red Hat 7.1 is lovely! Now I'm using Debian
Woody and am unlikely to go back. I think the Debian "philosophy" (for want
of a better word) suits me better. As a new user I feel that there is more
of an emphasis on getting a good basic understanding the OS without having
to go into really esoteric minutia with Debian. apt-get is outstanding and
the help on the mailing list has been in my experience the fastest and most
accurate of any I've used.
FWIW a friend of mine really likes Mandrake. Install and use, no sweat.
If you've got the bucks or the bandwidth then you might want to get a few
sets of CD's and have a little install party once a month or so. Use a
distro for a while, talk to the people on each mailing list, then a month
later blow it away and start over with a new one. See which one you really
like.
Good luck and have fun!
John Purser
-----Original Message-----
From: Royce Bell [mailto:rpbell@earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 08:53
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Takin' the plunge...
Okay, this is it. I'm about to take the plunge into Linux, but my
experience with dumb terminal-based Unix is over 20 years old. In the
interim, I've been on Windows; a sometimes happy, but always frustrating and
infuriating marriage of convenience and productivity-enslavement.
Debian Linux was recommended to me by a friend, but (this is embarrassing to
admit, as I feel like a newbie all over again) quite frankly, I'm
confusingly overwhelmed at the different products now available. Debian,
RedHat, etc. Everybody says theirs is the best, but they cannot all be
correct. I don't particularly want to go back to the command line, but I do
appreciate the minimalist approach of Unix, especially from a security
standpoint.
Any suggestions to ease the mind and grease the process?
rb
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R. P. Bell
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