On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, PrinceGaz wrote:
> Can any of you peeps who have converted to Linux, know much
> about any versions, or anything which may help me please email
Most people I know prefer Debian over any other distro. I used to run
Debian 1.3 on my machine at home which was nice, but I recently switched
over to Redhat 6 (it was the only CD I had on me at the time), 6.1 is out
soon as well. Mandrake is essentially Redhat with a few extras.
> And also that a real Linux use is expected to compile his own OS
> kernel [Gaz gets scared here, but thinks he can cope]
Heh, I havn't compiled a new kernal for a while now, usually you only need
to do that if you want extra hardware support, or are upgrading to a newer
kernal (which sometimes come as packages from your distro),
ftp://updates.redhat.com for example have rpms of newer kernals (from
memory) that you can download and simply go:
# rpm --upgrade kernal-whatever.rpm
Mark
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