Which one?

[Michael Hipp]

I'd submit that you're barking up entirely the wrong tree if the goal really 
is something for newbies.

Gentoo is definitely not for newbies and proud of it. SuSE could be except 
that alot of it just doesn't work right and their bazillion packages 
approach just confuses everything. Slack has always been billed as the one 
for "real men".

IMHO, for newbies, 2 choices:
- Lycoris (at least after the next release, current one is lacking)
- RedHat simply because it is so common, lots of books and available help. 
It's the "standard" for better or worse. And it does, indeed, work.

(This topic makes me once again mourn the passing of Caldera. May it not 
RIP.)

Michael

On Monday 10 June 2002 01:05 pm, Ted Ozolins wrote:
> On June 8, 2002 01:21 am, Richard R. Sivernell wrote:
>
> Since Caldera firmly placed their daggers, choosing a distro that I can
> recommend to newbies has become an almost impossible task. Mandrake keeps
> loosing basic usb function but return on the next boot (doesn't find it
> at boot up but finds it on the next boot) Redhat has become another M$
> meaning you can not just go to their site and upgrade packages. You have
> to register on their site and create a profile with a list of installed
> packages (sound familiar?) along with your name phone number address and
> then you'll get bumped because the server is to busy to accommodate
> non-licensed users. Basic printer setup sucks under RH 7.3.
>  I'm setting up gentoo on another partion and will soon have it to where
> its to my liking but I would not recommend it to a newbie. I guess next
> I'll try Slackware and SuSe and see if they can be setup without a lot of
> hand-holding.