I understand what your saying, I'm the exact same way, as I'm still new to the whole admin thing. Red Hat and Mandrake still offer this. When I referred to the "windows" like env. I was talking about the window managers. And RH and Mandrake come with many different window managers, gnome, kde, ect... The thing is these are just a x windows system. You still have full access to the entire linux/unix platform through your terminals, and you dont even need to use the window managers if you dont want to. You can simply use the shell. The "windows" type system is just an application running. Its not like MS WINDOWS were it is actually the whole operating system(I know you can get a dos prompt..but come on! =0) ) Does this help? -Chris
On Fri, 24 May 2002, Matthew Stapleton wrote: > Say someone, like myself, did not like windows and wanted a more Unix > type experience or environment. Would you suggest Debian or Slackware? > I actually want to try to learn about the system and not just point and > click. > > > On Fri, 24 May 2002 12:41:34 -0600 (MDT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: > > Well as a UNIX/linux systems admin. I am forced to work with just > > about > > every possible distribution out there, so I'll throw out a couple > > ideas. My first two suggestions would be for Red Hat or Mandrake. > > These > > distro's are almost to the point were'd I give them to my mom and > > tell her > > she could use them! =0). The RPM system makes updates and installs > > so > > easy, and these seem to be the most popular, and therefore you are > > more > > likely to find people with the same problems. However they are a > > bit > > "windows" like if you use gnome or KDE. I don't have any exp. with > > SuSe, > > come to think of it I probally should try that! Hope this helps. > > -Chris > > > > On Fri, 24 May 2002, Matthew Stapleton wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have tried several of the major distributions on my PC over the > > years. > > > But I am by no means an expert at using UNIX/Linux. I want some > > advice > > > on the pros and cons of the various distributions. Possibly any > > replies > > > to this could be aimed at Redhat, Slackware, Debian, SUSE, > > Mandrake etc > > > as many of the others are based on these. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > > Matthew Stapleton > > > ........... > > > > > > - > > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > > linux-newbie" in > > > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > More majordomo info at > > http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > > > > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > > linux-newbie" in > > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > > > > > Matthew Stapleton > ........... > God would have us know that we must live as men who manage our lives > without him.The God who is with us is the God who forsakes us.The God who > lets us live in the world without the working hypothesis of God is the > God before whom we stand continually.Before God and with God we live > without God. God lets himself be pushed out of the world onto the cross. > --Bonhoeffer > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
