Re: [LUG] Wanting to really put an effort to learn Linux properly.

[Pete Hatton <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Steve Marvell <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> I'll stand up and say "Redhat for newbies, Debian for pros". I used to
> be a Suse fan, but it's got on my nerves. Am I right in thinking that
> Mandrake is an optimised Redhat?

I've yet to try Debian, however I've heard and seen of it, there are some very 
good things about it. (It's on my play with list next)

Mandrake is very much like Redhat, except it's seems to have a excellent rock 
solid installer, which I recommended to any newbie to Linux.  Also Mandrake CPU 
requirements is a Pentium class CPU or better, so anyone with 386 and 486 -  
sorry, as all the packages are compiled to take advantage of the extra stuff in 
the CPU.

I sugguest you grab Mandrake, play/break it for a while, and move on upto 
Debian.

Pete Hatton
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