Re: [Sheflug] Re: Pink Tie Linux 8.0

[David Holden <nospam [at] xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 10:57, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Dave
> 
> > Yes, I mention this because it does seem a popular distro among
> > sheflug users (well the ones that have been to meetings recently)
> > which given these licensing issues surprises me.
> 
> 
> You will also have noticed that both Debian and Mandrake are popular 
> :) As our recently announced Debian project will prove to you...


Yes true, didn't mean to infer anything :)

> 
> http://magiconf.sheflug.co.uk/
> 
> We did have a session of trying to make Slackware popular - as used by 
> the BBC - but that kind of faded away for some reason.


Recently I've only personally tried redhat 8 and mandrake 9, and despite
my misgivings about redhat I do prefer redhat 8. Mainly because I like
the bluecurve interface (sad I know) and also the really cool font
handling - just take you fonts and put them in your ~/.fonts directory
and redhat automagically loads them up! pretty neat.



  Dave.







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