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[Joe Linux]

I tried Turbo as a home user some time back and found it unfriendly 
because of tiny little, but very important issues similar to what you 
have mentioned.  I've had good luck with recent Mandrakes, but now there 
is the missing fonts in "GIMP" issue so I got Red Hat 9.0 from 
http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/linux/terms.php   This is a great 
place to order linux CD's from if you don't need the books.  They may 
have the boxed sets too.  As you can see the prices are cheap and the 
speed and service are just fabulous.  I think I ordered over Memorial 
day week end, and they came to my house in the mail on Tuesday.  Anyway 
if you are simply curious about Linux, I recommend Mandrake 9.1  I 
haven't tried RH 9.0 yet, but I have tried their other releases each 
time one comes out, and end up going back to Mandrake mostly because Red 
Hat hasn't had a fully implemented "control center"  Hopefully they have 
finished it in 9.0.  You are forced into command line with RH so the 
pros don't mind, but it's hard and confusing for a new comer or single 
machine home user like myself who wants a fully GUI based machine.  In 
that sense Mandrake is great.

Adam Bultman wrote:

>>Turbolinux:  Was difficult to dig into the documentation.  They say 
>>right up front that this is optimized for Asian users, so if you have 
>>needs for Japanese, Chinese, and Korean support it's worth checking into.
>>
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>Note:
>Don't use turbolinux.  I'm migrating my company from Turbolinux to slack.  
>They used to be larger (pre 2000), but now they are dropping ALL US 
>SUPPORT and going for the Asian market. So it should be more like 'If you 
>live in Japan, China, or Korea, check this out'.  They just came out with 
>a new version for the aforementioned users. 
>
>I have.. too many turbolinux 6 machines. It was years form when the 
>released tl6 to when the released the new version, tl8, if I'm not 
>mistaken. The google group for TL has been a ghost town.  Last security 
>update was ages ago.  TL, in a nutshell, sucks. Completely.  If you come 
>across a free CD, burn it.  
>
>They had a clustering software package called 'Turbocluster'.  It was 
>fairly popular at one point (enough to make my company buy into it) 
>because it allowed you to cluster your web or ftp servers together. 
>
>Flaw:
>TC will support either 'load balancing' or 'failover'.  I chose 'load 
>balancing'. In TC 4, load balancing meant 'switch off every few weeks' 
>(seriously.  I ran checks on this).  In TC 6, load balancing meant 'switch 
>off every so often, somewhere between 2 hours and 1 week'. It... sucks.  
>If the master fails (the 'switching' is the master switching from one 
>server to another) then all is lost.  You have to be present to fail them 
>over by hand.  If the slave fails: Doesn't matter, because the slave 
>wasn't getting touched anyway.  **sigh**.  Plus, you are forced to use 
>kernel 2.2.16.  
>
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