Re: Taking the Plunge-- Still

On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 16:08, jmneedham-mqiTH3uDUMEAvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
wrote:
> Hi guys:
> 
> Thought Gentoo would be cool,but I am obviously not seasoned enough to know 
> what I am doing with it.  Got the X server up and still dinking... made a 
> decision to try and download the FTP install for SuSE 8.2 because it is still 
> not Redhat or Mandrake (no offense please to those of you who like those 
> distros, just not had good luck with them myself)... Debian would be a good 
> idea too, is there a P4 optimised version of it out there and it is easy to 
> install?  Is SuSE easy to install?  I want to avoid building my own kernel 
> for the time being because I frankly don't know what i am doing obviously... 
> thanks for any and all help.
> 
> Your advice is welcome!
> 
I'm biased naturally, but I would suggest looking into the Canadian
distribution of Debian - Libranet. Every review is positive. The
installer, while not 100% graphical, is still much easier than Debians.
And Libranet is based on Sarge or testing, so you're not too far behind
the bleeding edge.

About the only negative thing I can think of is that a broadband
connection might be needed for the frequent updates through apt-get.

As someone said, it just works. (Or has at least for me.)

Sam Miller




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