alexis Posted July 15, 2004 Author Posted July 15, 2004 i guess but there has to be some kind of difference, anyway which one do oyu guys recommend.
alexis Posted July 15, 2004 Author Posted July 15, 2004 how about freebsd can someone gevie some info about it too
Wizard Posted July 15, 2004 Posted July 15, 2004 My friend using openbsd says it's easier then what he was running before. It also includes hangman! Play the game to make your PC restart!
ugenn Posted July 15, 2004 Posted July 15, 2004 Which version of linux should i buy?which would you choose and whySlackwareMandrakeRed HatDebianFedora?????'i am makeing my first steps but i always considered myself a power user and a fast learner, if i have the time For beginners, try Mandrake (why do you need to buy anyway, it's freely available). RH (Fedora Core) is server centric, Slackware and Debian are more for powerusers.
ugenn Posted July 15, 2004 Posted July 15, 2004 how about freebsd can someone gevie some info about it tooGet a Mac if you want to use FreeBSD on the desktop.
alexis Posted July 15, 2004 Author Posted July 15, 2004 i am not buying anything, i am El Cheapo greatest fan. hehe, anyway i am new to linux but i consider mayself a power user so i guess i will install slackware. i will probably buy get both slackware and debian. if i am not wrong that´s 2 cds and 3cd respectively.
ugenn Posted July 16, 2004 Posted July 16, 2004 I personally dislike debian though. Their stuff are usually behind by a couple of versions.
Gryph Posted July 16, 2004 Posted July 16, 2004 ugenn, do you like Gentoo? Is it easy for n00bs to get into?
ugenn Posted July 16, 2004 Posted July 16, 2004 ugenn, do you like Gentoo? Is it easy for n00bs to get into?I used to use Gentoo. It's a sourced based distribution that lets you build the system from source using an automated packaging system (portage). Kind of life Linux From Scratch but automated. It's extremely flexible as you get to choose and customize exactly what packages and optimizations you want. But it takes a long time to install (literally hours...days on really old machines / slow networks) due to the compilation times. I don't think it may be too suitable for n00bs.
alexis Posted July 16, 2004 Author Posted July 16, 2004 how about fedora, i was going to get red hat 9.0 but instead i got fedora 2.0 did i make a good choice?
ugenn Posted July 16, 2004 Posted July 16, 2004 (edited) how about fedora, i was going to get red hat 9.0 but instead i got fedora 2.0 did i make a good choice?FC2 is more or less Redhat 11.0. RH (the company) stopped supporting the free version of RH in favour of their commercial RH Enterprise Server last year. FC is a community supported distro that takes off where RH left off. edit: to ans yr qn, yes. It's based on the 2.6 kernel. Edited July 16, 2004 by ugenn
alexis Posted July 16, 2004 Author Posted July 16, 2004 i got fedora, debian 3 rl2 and slackware 10.0 (the first two cds) i wanted to get freebsd and freesbie (a live cd of freebsd) but couldn´t yet. i don´t know much about them exept that they are made from unix
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