CF only supports SuSE and Red Hat, yes... So, if your going to leanr for CF, pick redhat, that's our reccomended distro.
As for what makes mandrake good? Excellent documentation, a nice UI, easy to learn and understand.. Your general run of the mill happy things. ======================== Jesse Noller Linux Fiend Macromedia Server Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] [root@spidermonkey]$ chown -R us:us *yourbase find / -name '*yourbase*' | xargs chown us:us > -----Original Message----- > From: George Kaytor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:50 AM > To: CF-Linux > Subject: RE: Flavor of the month > > > Hmm, > > Cold Fusion for linux supports suse and redhat right? What > makes mandrake a > good learning choice? > > This is good stuff, I'd rather learn from your experiences > then make a > mistake at that the get go... > > -g > > > >From: Jesse Noller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: CF-Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: RE: Flavor of the month > >Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:41:56 -0500 > > > >Personal snipe: > > > > Although you get alot from SuSe, and it is slightly more > >user-friendly than redhat, I personally think most of it's > nothing more > >than > >bloatware. And Yast/2 is proprietary and a complete pain in > the arse to > >boot. If it's only SuSE and Redhat, go with redhat. At least > there you'll > >know your being forced to learn Linux, not locked into > something so bizzare > >that it takes over 100 pages in a manual to learn it. > > > > However, if you want a real beginner distro, do go with mandrake > >(barring dual booting issues). Mandrake is a good learning one. > > > >======================== > >Jesse Noller > >Linux Fiend > >Macromedia Server Development > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >[root@spidermonkey]$ chown -R us:us *yourbase > > > >find / -name '*yourbase*' | xargs chown us:us > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: George Kaytor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:38 AM > > > To: CF-Linux > > > Subject: Flavor of the month > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I will be jumping into the linux world soon and have > narrowed down my > > > choices between suse 7.3 and redhat 7.2. Right now it seems > > > to me that suse > > > gives you a bigger bang for the buck.. Can get suse > > > professional for almost > > > the same price as red hat personal and it comes with a > > > sh*tload of stuff. > > > Any advice or comments between the 2? I'll also be watching > > > the linux ate my > > > hard drive thread very carefully as I plan on goign the dual > > > boot route.. > > > > > > thanks > > > > > > -george > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-linux%40houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_linux or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
