"Dan Treacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I know I started off on Slackware and used that for a while and
> when RedHat 5.0 came out I thought it was almost a miracle :-) but things
> have progressed a fair way since then.
interesting you should say that. I too started off on slackware.
I too gave RH 5.0 a go when it came out (then 5.1) but I was
less than impressed with RH. It was all different to slackware.
I attributed that to the fact I was by then familiar with slackware
(and solaris).
But these days I'm still not really impressed by RH.
Having said that, my gateway machine is RH 5.1 (still) at least
for a couple more weeks until it becomes debian 2.2r2, and my
laptop is RH 6.2 (because it installed with no problems "out
the box" when corel, suse etc failed) although that may
shortly change when a new disk arrives for it and I see if
debian installs on it with no problems.
I think RH still have that perception of being "newbie-friendly"
though and I recommended RH 6.2 to a friend who wanted to try
linux (a complete computer newbie). Unfortunately he has a
new laptop and Xwindows from the RH 6.2 CD wouldn't work, and
if it won't install and work "out the box" it's useless IMO.
So he's still stuck with lose98 until I try RH 7.0 and debian 2.2r2
on it.
Dave.
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