Re: advice please...................

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Jose L Gomez Dans wrote:

> > to take the plunge and spend some time and money on a quality 'LINUX' distro
> > and a bit of hardware so i can get rid of windows forever.
> Happened over here already :)

Do-do dum dum dum dum, another one bites the dust. .. . ;)

> I hope this summarizes a bit what distro's have to offer. Sorry that
> I haven't gone in techie mode, but I think that defeats purpose. I guess
> it'd be nice to have a sheflug's distro rantings on the webpage. Of maybe
> some knows of a nice URL for this?

Sheflug's distro rantings ;)) Nice concept. . . although I presume you
meant rankings, or ratings. . . or, perhaps you didn't! Heh, either way,
that *would* cause arguments!

Generally, the way I do things: get a GPL cd, install it, if it works I
then buy the proper thing, if not, I don't. I use the GPL CDs as very good
demonstrations, pretty much, and if the GPL doesn't work, I don't send the
company my money ;) I used RH5.2 once upon a time, because the GPL CD
worked well - I then went out and bought the boxed set the powertools.
On another machine, I did the same again: tried RH6.0. It didn't work, and
I certainly didn't buy the boxed set ..

Cheers,

Alex.

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