You could always try a live cd like Knoppix or SuSE LiveEval if you don't want to install a whole new system.
Jesse On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 15:45, Doug Boyd wrote: > Hi Szemir, > > I've been using Redhat for about a year now and am happy with it. I > guess I'm just curious to > try another distro. No complaints about Redhat. I simply want to > compare Redhat with > others. > Looks like I'll give SUSE 9.0 Professional a try as soon as I find a > copy > of the install CD's. > > Thanks for the reply, > > Doug > > bogi wrote: > > >Hi Doug , > > Welcome to the world of Linux and Open source. > > Fedora is redhat, as you may know. And a good > >distro with lots of bells and stuff for nubies. Suse and Mandrake > >are your other 2 main options. Then would come the fun stuff like.. > >Now you asked for it: Cluggix :-) Gento , Libra, Lunar, LFS (Linux from > >scratch) and Slackware, not to mention Debian (8 cds). But if you really > >using Fedora, then stick with it for a while, get used to it. It is a good > >representitive of the rpm-based distros like Redhat, Suse, Mandrake and > >trustix to mention a few. The other family would be the deb-based distros, > >mainly Debian, Cluggix, Libra, Knoppix. Then you get the third family, the > >sorce-based like Lunar, Gentoo, LFS, slackware. > > > >Ok. Well. Short of listing a bunch of distros. What could i help you with. > >What is it that you are missing in fedora per se, what are you looking for. > > > >Cheers > >Szemir > > > > > >On January 4, 2004 14:46, Doug Boyd wrote: > > > > > >>Hello, > >> > >> I'm new to the linux arena. I'm curious if a survey has been done to > >>determine the most popular flavour of linux among the Calgary Linux > >>Users Group. I'm currently using Fedora, but am thinking of giving SUSE > >>a try. > >> Which flavour do Cluggers recommend for learning linux with? > >> > >>Thanks, > >> > >>Doug (linux newbie) > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>clug-talk mailing list > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > >> > >> > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >clug-talk mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca -- Jesse Kline, RHCT _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
