I'd suggest Mandrake 9.1 or 9.2 (if you want to wait a month or so for it to be 
released)
It's quick and easy to use and install and uses urpmi for rpm which deal with 
dependencies well.

chad 



> While not convinced completely, I'll give RPM's another go :-) This apt
> thing sounds promising...
>
> There is something else that I have been thinking about lately.
>
> Initially, my decision to install RH7.3 was made because a friend and a
> friend of his was going to install it, and we thought it would make
> sense to share the learning curve between us. They had a look see and
> decided to go for 7.3 because it is supposed to be well supported and
> stable. Unfortunately, they never got round to it, and I jumped in all
> on my own :-(
>
> So I'm just wondering: is it worthwhile to stay with RH7.3, or should I
> go on to more recent distributions?  If so, which one, and why?  Opening
> a beehive here :-)
>
> cheers
>
> Jaco
>
> Shane Hollis wrote:
> >Chris Sawtell will confirm or deny this one for me but it is my
> > understanding you should be able to patch or upgrade your kernel using
> > the kernel.org site?
> >
> >If not let me know and I will be happy to lend, give, sell my Redhat 9
> > CD's as required and as it legal. RH 7.3 was fine but RH9 is another
> > beast all together an am not enjoying it.
> >
> >Shane
> >
> >>OT: RPM's are evil, and so is RH. Tried to upgrade my kernel for five
> >>nights in a row, and got kicked of very time after 30 min cause I'm not a
> >>paying member and their bandwidth is limited for for non-payers. Where
> >>another ten minutes the first night would have done it.  I call that
> >>positively stupid.

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