-> -----Original Message----- -> From: Michael Balcos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 10:45 PM -> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> Subject: [plug] Happy with Slackware, sad with Red Hat 7.2 -> -> -> I gave the latest Red Hat and Slackware a spin in my -> notebook. Red Hat -> 7.1 used to work fine on my notebook, but when I tried 7.2, I got -> problems mounting my PCMCIA CD-ROM! :( As for Slackware, she ran -> gracefully but I got the shock of my life with XFree86 (it -> ran merely by -> setting a proper frame buffer console). Generally, I'm happy with -> Slackware and sad with Red Hat. My experiences tell me that -> Slackware is -> the soonest to work on most of the hardware I've acquired(as weird -> as parallel port IDE devices and PCMCIA CD-ROMS for notebooks) and -> maintain one of the lowest hardware requirements for Linux(I got
As most linux guru would say, use the distro where you are more comfortable with. -hth -nie _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
