Well, been experimenting with a variety of distributions the last few
days since I have 3 gigs open on a secondary hard disk drive.
Installed the following distributions:
Redhat 5.0 and 5.1 from cheapbytes
Slackware 3.6
Caldera 1.2 base package along with staroffice 4 and other stuff
SuSE 5.0 to 5.3
Now waiting for redhat 5.2 and turbolinux. So my extremely subjective
opinion is that redhat installs quite easily and has some nice tools to
build networking options, printing, etc. Caldera has an okay install
packaging approach using LISA but it populates some menus with things
that do not seem to work or claim to be old things. This is rather
strange to me but, hey, most stuff works. Slackware. Man this is one
hard thing to install. I think you have to be some linux guru or
something to maximize your investment in slack. Some issues are that
the gui setup program will not mount the cd correctly; but at the shell
prompt, no problems. I also found the setup program extremely obtuse
and hard to learn my way around in. SuSE 5.0 to 5.3 are extremely easy
to install. If I had never done a linux installation before, I think
honestly that redhat's install routine would grab me first. It seems
intuitive and easy to grok. With SuSE 5.0 I had some false starts with
rebooting and having yast running over and over again for no apparent
reason since it just aborts. SuSE 5.3 works nicely and is my regular
old desktop of choice. To be honest, though, I think when people see
how SuSE sets things up and get used to the "SuSE way" it becomes
apparent that SuSE is exemplary at setting up user interfaces and ways
of doing things at a central level. It will be interesting to contrast
SuSE 5.3 and RedHat 5.2. Even more so, when SuSE 6.0 makes its debut.
I am still experimenting around with various ways of setting up two
dists on one system. I think Michael Johnson is right regarding
booting and lilo. I also subscribe to the svlug digest and Rick Moen
has been quite helpful with some advice on this. Next thing is to try
something like BEos or BSD. BEos looks rather interesting and my
hardware is supported.
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Michael E. Perry
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