On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Ailwyn Burgess wrote:
> I realise that this will probably start world war 3, but here goes anyway
>
> Which version of Linux for x86 is best to start on? I have used Redhat 5
> (very) briefly but I want to start getting into Linux in a serious way.
>
Okay...caviot...
If you seriously want to learn linux (manually editing files, etc), you
may want to get a no-frills version of linux. I say this only because
YAST (which comes with SuSE) and control-panel (redhat) tend to spoil you,
and often times you don't learn what you should learn about the
configuration of linux.
So, if you want to _seriously learn_ linux, I would recommend something
like slackware or debian. The disadvantage, you may have to read a lot of
readmes, HOWTOs, and FAQs. The advantage, you'll be able to pick up
almost any other distribution from there (with few exceptions).
If you get redhat or SuSE, use the control-panel / Yast for intitial
setup, but after that try to learn manipulation of the config files.
I personally use redhat as my base. But considering that I really
don't have many RPMs left on my system (I uninstalled and compiled most of
the libs from source), it really isn't any distribution anymore.
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