[NTLUG:Discuss] New Computer -- which
Ralph
sfreader at sbcglobal.net
Sun Nov 14 13:05:21 CST 2004
Howdy,
If you want to go with something you are most familiar with, try
Fedora Core 3. It is close to RedHat 9, but lots of improvements. I
used FC(Fedora Core) 1 and 2. They were OK for upgrading RedHat, but
had too many problems for me to use as a primary workstation.
It sounds like you are not heavily invested in RedHat, so I would
probably recommend Mandrake 10.1, or Xandros OCE. Xandrox is easy to
update, looks more like Windows than most distros, and works well.
Mandrake 10.1 makes a nice desktop, but has a few of its own little
quirks. After you are a little more advanced, I'd say you should look
at SuSE. But, right now I think Xandros and Mandrake are better places
to start. Xandros OCE is the free edition and you can find it now,
Mandrake 10.1 Official will be release real soon as a download edition.
There is a community edition available now of Mandrake 10.1, but I would
not recommend it for anything but a brief test. There are too many
things missing from the Mandrake community edition.
Good luck,
Ralph
p.s., if you have time, I'd say just download and try several distros.
Ubuntu looks good, butI have just started using it and can't comment
much. UserLinux may be the way to go in a month or two.
p.p.s., Do yourself a favor and don't use ext2 or ext3 as your main
filesystem.
On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 09:10, Kipton Moravec wrote:
> I want to add a Linux as a workstation in a network with 5 Windows 98 and 1
> Windows XP computer. There is no server.
...
> Redhat 9 is the only distribution I have played with at all, and I am not
> very familiar with it.
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