On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 19:31, Aidan Karley wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, George wrote: > > I am thinking of trying another linux distro. Up to now it's mostly > > been MD with a touch of Gentoo thrown in. My choices are Red Hat or > > SuSe. Any recommendations > > > A minor point from me: if you're buying, do you think that the > political aspects of ensuring that (say) PC World get a regular > <caching!> of the cash registers for Linux products are worthwhile? > While I don't visit the place regularly (except to see what's in the > "Manager's Specials" pile, i.e. returned goods), I noticed that Linuxes > disappeared off the shelves about the time that Xecerable-P came out, > but it's back now (Mandrake, SuSe, RedHat, one copy of Caldera). > As for which distro: I've used both SuSE 7.1, several Mandraken > and RedHat. I'm agnostic. > > -- > Aidan Karley, > Aberdeen, Scotland > Written at Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:08 GMT, but posted much later. > Present location: 57�10'11"N, 02�08'43"W (sub-tropical Aberdeen)
I haven't bought much from PC World. I don't think their stuff is that great; what I've had hasn't been any better than what I've purchased in Priceless or Infiniti or by mail order. The Finnieston store I haven't been in lately, but usually service is poor and stock display is a dogs dinner. However, it's still a well patronised establishment, and presumably a first port of call for a lot of people, so having distros on sale there can't but help awareness of Linux. -- gav _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
