Re: [LUG] Re: installations

[Simon Avery <flash@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adrian Midgley wrote:

> > Give a newbie a blank hard drive and copies of windows and, say, Fedora
> > or Ubantu (I don't know mandrake, that might be better). In my
> > experience, more people would get a functioning desktop running with
> > windows first.

> In my experience, from a blank and copy of NT4 and SuSE 7.2 NT4 was quicker.
> From a blank and W2k and SuSE 8, SuSE was quicker.
> From a blank and XP SP1 and SuSE 9.0, SuSE was quicker.
> From a blank and Debian, Debian is not quick.
> But good once we get there.

Cool, but are you a newbie?

(Actually, I've installed Debian quite a few times on different 
machines, and found it pretty quick - but then I know the install 
routine quite well for potato and woody now)

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Simon Avery

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