On Friday 28 March 2003 19:19, Conrad Wolf wrote: > Hi! > > Thanks for all your feedback on GNOME vs. KDE. I thought, if you're > writing so many comments, it would only be fair analysing them. Here's > the so far result: > > GNOME: # > KDE: ##### > Tie: # > > Even though, the decision looks quite clearly, I'll follow the advice of > most of you and install both. This brings me to a second issue. I'm > using Red Hat 8.0 at the moment but would like to change to Debian. As > I've read in your (Andy's) mail, you're using Debian 3.0 'woody'. Have > you got the installation CDs of it? > > Cheers, > > Conrad
If you're new to linux (actually, make that "unix based systems" in general, because if you've got experience with other similar systems, it effectively negates what I'm about to say...) ... Debian isn't exactly "newbie friendly", you might find it quite a shock after being used to a RedHat 8 system. Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking it - in fact it's my distro of choice, and I like it the way it is... *but* If I'd had debian when I first started using linux, I probably wouldn't be now. "stable" (aka 'woody' at the moment) is exactly that - stable. Don't expect it to be up to date though - if you're expecting a desktop as nice as your RedHat one, you're in for a nasty surprise ;-) You could always use "unstable" if you want software less than a couple of years old - and there ain't much that isn't in debian unstable, it has everything under the sun, bleeding edge and all - but it's called "unstable" for a reason. Things break regularly. Unless you know your way around a bash shell at the very least, you should probably reconsider. You were asking about nice desktops (earlier KDE vs GNOME post). If that's what you're interested in, I suggest you try Mandrake. Comes with lots of nice goodies, and is newbie friendly. And, although it's been a while since I used it (maybe someone else who knows better could comment / correct me?) "cooker" has all the latest stuff, and is fairly reliable (it can't possibly break as often as debian unstable ;-) My 2c.. Cheers, Gareth
