On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:20:23 +0000 "Robert E. Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm installing Linux on a laptop for a friend - P4 1.8, 256 MB DDR, > Radeon 7500, it's really a pretty nice laptop. > > Redhat hates it, it hates Redhat (countless bugs, sound-related, > scanning-related, PPP related, etc. both in 9.0 and I even tried the > latest Severn and I don't feel like squashing them). It did work just > > fine when I installed it on his desktop... but oh well. > > Gentoo takes way too long (he needs it by the end of next week, max, > and what with package downloads on dialup.. yeah right) and he's > pretty much computer illiterate. > > Mandrake just seems too Redhat-like for me, plus I'm getting > unstability reports, but I'm willing to give it a try. > > Debian... I'm also willing to try it... but I just have a bad taste in > > my mouth after the last time I tried it (though that was several years > > ago- I just hated having to wait for up to date versions to make it > into stable, which I'm definitely going to be using on someone else's > machine). Debian used to have only stable and unstable. Now, there's testing. Current packages, but not bleeding edge, also not as stale as stable. Also a few other non-official repositories have things like acrobat reader, kde-3.1.4, etc. > > SuSE I'd rather not pay for, and neither would he. > > Slackware looks like my best option right now... as I've got the > Slackware LiveCD loaded on there right now, and it's really fast and > really nice looking (it's actually faster than Redhat was running off > the disk). Ever a good choice, but harder to keep current. Wish list: apt-get for slackware (slack-get? apt-slack? apt-ware?). > > Any reason why I shouldn't use slackware or I should use one of the > others I've listed (or ones I've forgotten to list?) Ease of use > after installation, lack of show-stopping bugs (i.e. no workarounds > just to get on the web to get mail- we had that with Redhat on the > laptop), and fast setup are of main importance (oh yeah.. free as > well). > > Thanks! > > Bob Raymond > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> > http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Ciao, David A. Bandel -- Focus on the dream, not the competition. Nemesis Racing Team motto GPG key autoresponder: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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