hi
Being a newbie myself and just moved from mandrake(near enough) to deb 4
days ago in fact. I find that sure RH is a good distro , it installs
wonderfully looks great is nicly setup when u finaly get there. But i
learnt how to do things with programs ie i used linuxconf to set up my
networking i used DrakConf to setup my hardware my X and everything.
When i got hit with the deb shell i relised i didnt know how to get some
things working w/o helper programs. So after a bit of fussing i am now
ruunning my box almost exactly the same as it was before but with all the
candey of apt-get, stability etc etc
my point RH & Mandrake did not teach me what i really needed to know, I
may have shrunk back to my hole if i had to start off w/ deb because it is
more complex but if i could have keeped pushing myself reading docs etc I
think that deb gives a feel of what linux is more like and would probly
give a better frame work for more complex stuff in future.
BTW i started on the list about 8 months ago and i felt a little bit
nervous posting but that is probly a good thing to an extent as sometimes
there was just a little prob pissing the hell out of me and it forced me
to RTFM.
(no offece to RH & Mandrake)
just my 2 us cents worth about .0000001 au cents ;-)
>
> yes, the installation is (very) hard, particularly for beginners,
> debian always still the best choose for a server at small-offices.
> I particularly advise beginners, to use RedHat, always still the best
> choose. At least you cannot rate a linux-disp. for the time, which you
> need for the installation. Questionable is it anyway, why someone tries
> something else, if his high-praised disp. is good.
> It depends everything of the 'installer', what he/she is able to
> do, for some people is it importend to have a colorful, easy installation
> for the other is security the choose.
> But 4 Days for a installation, sound nice. We made a test, my Wife
> installed a linux ( Corel ) she knows nothing about linux, she finished
> after 15 min. Now Corel is much more 'better' than SuSe ?
>
> amu
>
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