On 04-Mar-99 Langa Kentane wrote:
> I want to install the most basis Linux system. I am newbie to Linux and I
> figure if I can install such a basic system and install all the other stuff
> that I already have on my new system without that RPM stuff and similar that
> makes Linux easy and windoze 95ish.
>
> I want to bring my system up from nothing and work it up so what I actually
> want to know is how do I install the system from stiffies and what distro
> will be the best (not redhat please... I think it sucks.., too commercial...
> they gonna turn Linux into windoze).
If you are a new-bee to Linux how do you know RH sucks.
HOW exactly are they trying to turn Linux into M$.
RH went with gnome (that seems to come up a lot lately) over KDE because at
the time QT (which is the widget set for KDE) was not open source.
RH is not bad give it a try before you come to an opinion on it.
Will
>
> Can you also lead me to the howto of installling the system from stiffies
> too.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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