this is more a bobert question...

but its about that yearly time when I try out linux to see how its doing... see if I like it any better...

So what should I try... Red Hat 9??? is mandrake still around... suse???

MC I have a personal love of RedHat, Shrike (9) is very slick... sets up easy and nVidia's driver installer (from nVidia's site) works great.
One little edit and your done.

I have tried the others but I keep coming back to RedHat.

get 98se

Red Hat

i should spank u for that

yes mandrake still is around its at ver 9.1 at the mo and im using that at the mo
personaly it is between rh and mandrake they are bot easy to set up and use

Why go to linux??.. if SCO have their way it will be gone in no time...

Linux = unix rip off...

Now Windows, there is a Unique OS :wink:

why use windows when there are doors

No matter what you install, be sure you install all programming features. Even if you don't plan on programming yourself, you will need most of it to compile and install programs

(With RH's RPM files it's really easy to install things)
I'm not too sure but RPM's might work on other Linux Distro's but I have yet to see one that supports the rpm file type except red hat.

mandrake uses rpms as well

easy as eating pie ummmm pie

maybe this can give u alittle info http://www.tweakhound.com/mdk9/mandrake9.htm

ya i remember that about mandrake... the rpms... like them alot......

does RedHat use them as well???

GET REDHAT!!!!!!!!!!! The only Linux I would load.

Well, instead of starting a new thread...

I know little to nothing about Linux, and I want to put it into my dual boot config instead of Win 98... What distro should I use... (since I know pretty much nothing about Linux, including installing programs or drivers)

Help me decide what I should use...

first of need to know a little...

u wanna get rid of 98 and put lnx in its place so at a gess 98 is in its own partition
if this is right it makes life a hell of alot easyer for me
the distribution doesnt realy matter for u at this mo a simple easy to start learning one is prob the best so mdk rh suse slack couple others would be best if u have a preffrence then go with that but from what u say it doesnt matter so to make mylife easyer get a copy of mdk9.1 mainly coz i do most my work in this it uses rpms and saves me rembering or getting round to installing another distro
once u have a copy prefrably the 3cd version u can do it just with one but better if u get all 3 then the fun begins

ok so is 98 wanting gone from system
is 98 on seprate partsion


(hmmm beer and tiredness make bob spell bad)

i'm going to install Red Hat 9 when I get back from work this afternoon .

I want to learn Linux. Earlier I tried but my wlan wouldn't work so I couldn't get support. But now I think I found a driver and it should work

ill give GNU another chance aswell...but it better work...too many distros out there...

oh is it that time of the yr again already sid...once a yr every yr...u try give up and run back to bills tits

ROFL!

if u really just wanna try it out grab urself a copy of knoppix....it just boots off the cd.

Hee Hee

Got Yellowdog Linux running on a 200Mhz PowerPC Mac clone with only 64MB ... surprised it even installed, but its actually running decently.

Cheapest computer in the house ... free and a free OS.

Linux

Free, as in free beer

i picked up red hat 9 at best buy. $40USD

You paid for Linux

As Linux is free, I want to see what would happen if no Linux makers anywhere got 1 single penny from Linux, obviously they couldn't complain as its free.

Paying for RedHat is actually good as it gets you the free update account, just connect to RHN and click update... Yup just like Winders... High speed and all

As opposed to dl'ing the updates from a mirror and installing them yourself...

Beer free? Where? hehehe

Yeah.. that makes it worth trying..

I dl'ed Mandrake 9.1, installed it, but screwed up somehow, so took it off, will be trying again this weekend...

Ok I tried to install Linux once Mandrake 8 i think... everytime it would start to install the GUI it would go black and do nothing.. i wonder if its worth a try again...

Damn you Bob look at all the peeps trying it now...

Slackware I might try... but is it newbie friendly... i like that name slackware...

Bobert uses XP look at his posts

slackware is far from easy.

how you managed to screw up i don't know.

probably a bad burn of the iso.

either way slackware has no gui for installation and is probably maddening attempting to use it after installation.


Red Hat is a breeze in installation

what do u mean?

MMMMMM Slackware! The cutting edge of linux, latest kernels etc...

RedHat installed out of the box, 30 minutes and your pretty much DONE...

Slackware 30 minutes and your just starting to manually edit all your config files to get it up and going, unless you need to compile a custom kernel to support hardware on your system or other features...

Dont get me wrong, Slackware is a fine distro... (I started on Slackware) serious grassroots, but you really need to know what your doing.

Best way to learn linux IMHO is to install Slackware... you will really get to know what does what in the OS.

i dont think so not for these dudes

they wil go in think its to hard and run away crying
best to get em up and running and then let them try the harder stuff

Buddy dropped off a PPC 6100 tonight.

Gonna put the MKLinux to it as she's too old for Yellow Dog.

i was regd linux user...but fucked if i know what my number was


oh yer it was # 1

i vote debian/GNU....apt package management is a billion times better than rpm
only problem is, they don't update debian as often as red hat

well ive got debian gnu/lnux 3.0 here in front

if u want me to review it...buy me a dvd drive

has anybody tried Lindows, or whatever its called...

maybe ill buy Lindows, edit it a bit...and re-release it as Winux...

Ya sure pay 40 bucks for RH updates... when I get them free with my MDK9.1

Mandrake and RedHat are both good releases. Debian is too, if you've got prior linux use under your belt

in a couple of words

its crap

I want to try all of them if i can.

u can if u want

best ones are red hat mandrake suse try them first

really the best why is to down load konpix (bad spelling) and just run it off a cd for a while... see how you like that... that way you don't have to install any thing....

There's a good idea MC!
I'm waiting for the 3.4 release of Knoppix...

Stay away from Mandrake Move... Almost screwed up my keychain drive... (It supposedly uses that to save your settings on)

I downloaded MandrakeMove. It boots up, asks a few questions (like what language), then just hangs! I gave up on it.