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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 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/linux/terms.php">http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/linux/terms.php</a>
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.<br>
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Adam Bultman wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">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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