[CLUE-Tech] Total newbie here....it's not easy being green ;)

[Ed Hill]

On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 18:20, Joe Linux wrote:
> Not to set off a religious war, but I would suggest you go with Mandrake 
> 9.1 and install it on your bigger machine.  Mandrake has a very good 
> partitioning tool which will help you greatly.  Also I think at this 
> point in time Mandrake is easier for someone just starting out.  The 
> people who like Red Hat seem to be people who have been using it for 
> several years and sort of learned the hard way from the beginning.  My 
> feeling is that at this point in time the Red Hat GUI system tools 
> aren't as complete as Mandrake's so you might be wanting to do 
> something, and you can't find it in the Red Hat control center only to 
> learn that it's not there yet and you have to do it through command 
> line.  This doesn't bother the old time users because that's how they 
> learned to do it in the first place.  Also I do prefer Mandrake's 
> partitioning tool better than Red Hat's, but in the end they do the same 
> thing.  I have installed Red Hat several different times, but never 
> ended up using it.  My choices are Mandrake, then Libranet.  SuSE can be 
> very good if it happens to install on your particular hardware.


Hi Joe,

Have you tried Red Hat 9?

It has a number of small improvements for beginners including a
stream-lined installer.  And their graphical configuration tools are a
lot nicer.  Honestly, I've looked at both the latest Mandrake and latest
Red Hat and I think its becoming a wash in terms of user-friendliness
for beginners.

Ed

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