Turbo is by far the easiest to install and get configured. Period.
More people run RedHat.
I tried 6.0 and dumped it. too clunky under gnome and too much
wierdness..
my 2cts.
Thomas Bryan wrote:
>
> On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Yasin A. Vohra wrote:
>
> > I would like to know how to partition a hard drive.
>
> If you go with Red Hat, there is some discussion of partitions in section
> 2.8 of their installation guide:
> http://www.redhat.com/corp/support/manuals/RHL-6.0-Manual/install-guide/manual/
>
> > I have PC running win98 and would like to install Linux on this
> > machine.(space is not a problem) Is it possible ?
>
> Yes. Many people on this liest "dual boot" Linux and one or more other
> operating systems.
>
> > What the difference between turbolinux and Redhat 6.0 . Any url
> > which can guide me through the installs.
>
> Well, there's a turbolinux employee who reads this list, I'm sure that
> we'll hear from him. I've been using Red Hat, and in most cases the
> install is almost trivial. The installation manual is pretty nice, and RH
> now includes some pointers for what to do after you've got RH installed
> (if you're a complete beginner with Linux). Actually, it's a 270+ page
> book called "Getting Started Guide." It's mostly about using and
> configuring GNOME (RedHat's default desktop as of 6.0), but it also
> appears to describe some basic commands, such as ls and pwd. There's also
> a bit about system administration in the Installation Guide.
>
> Red Hat 6.0 uses the 2.2 Linux kernel. It includes GNOME and KDE. Red
> Hat uses rpm (redhat package manager) to make updating your system and
> managing dependencies easier. Red Hat includes some system configuration
> tools with GUIs so that you can do some system administration without
> really having to know which files one would edit without the tools. The
> boxed Red Hat also ships with trial or personal versions of several
> commercial software applications, such as Applixware, IBM viavoice
> SDK and run time kit, OpenLink ODBC drivers, and S-plus. The rest of the
> RPMs with RedHat are fairly standard stuff these days: egcs, gdb, emacs,
> teTeX, Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk, XFree86, etc.
>
> I'll let others tell you about TurboLinux since I have no experience with
> it.
>
> ---Tom
>
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> Tom Bryan
> Applied Research Laboratories
> University of Texas at Austin
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