On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Gevaerts Frank wrote:
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:On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, hitchhiker wrote:
:
:> agreed...
:> anyone posting questions on this list PROBABLY (IMHO) ought to be using
:> something along the lines of Red Hat.
:
:I don't know. I never used Red Hat so I'm not sure of course, but is it
:possible to do basic system administration in Red Hat from the command
:line ? Not everyone has or needs X. It seems to me from what I've seen on
:other people's machines that Red Hat likes to put config information in
:files that are easy to find for their GUI tools, but hard to find if you
:want to do things manually. Of course I could be entirely wrong, but if I
:am, why should an other distro be more advisable for more advanced users?
I've been using redhat for about three years and do most of my work from
a console. I really only use X for netscape, wild on line nights with
two ISP's going full tilt with irc's, mails, ftp and browser flying, and
the odd game. OTOH, I've never used any other distro (Well, OpenBSD, but
that's another story)so I can't really compare either. I suspect all
distros are similar in the basics; they just have different priorities
re: strengths.
Having said that, I didn't find Redhat that easy to set up the first
time. Mind you that was back in kernel 1.0.?? days. When I finally
upgraded to 4.1 (which I'm still using ... it didn't break yet) It was a
snap. Maybe because I wasn't 'new' or maybe because it was built to be
easy. I suspect the latter.
Perhaps I've past the beginner stage and should try slackware. I'll
think about it. Hate to change when what I want to work works. :)
Posting from the Amiga tonight .. even to loud for me upstairs,
Barry
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