On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Uri Sharf wrote: > AFAIK SuSE is defiantly the easiest and most mature of the desktop > variants. It's only available for purchase, or a some what technical > online install from SuSE's site. > > I would go for this option, if only because the very extensive > supplementary documentation that comes with it (3 books in 8.0) and the > all 7 discs or so also come on a single DVD. > > See here for and FTP Install Guide in Hebrew: > http://whatsup.org.il/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=75
What does this supplementary documentation include? > Debian is not too difficult to install if you don't mind the > non-graphical approach. Bonzai is a good choice which requires some > understanding of your system and a rather spartan approach to the whole > process, but it does the job. Debian is very easy to maintain as far as > getting updated software is concerned, but could be difficult if you are > not technical. In certain areas I'm technically capable while in other areas (and setup and installation of Linux software is one of them) I am pretty technically impared. Thanks for the overview of possibilities. I am not sure where each stands regarding ease of installation on the side of the preloaded windows XP with its factory-settings hidden partition.... Does Suse use URPMI? -- Shlomo Yona [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shlomo/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
