28 Jun
2004
28 Jun
'04
8:58 p.m.
Patrick Useldinger wrote:
Patrick Kaell wrote:
Distros are sometimes like religions. People can get very emotional on
this topic. I try to stay neutral (I said I try ;-) I am pleased to hear
if someone uses the distro I recommended, but I try to evitate to
manipulate too much and to put someone too much into one direction. I do
not want to dicriminate other distro users, because their distro is not
bad either. The same way as I am a Christian, I will not tell a Jew that
he will not get into heaven by staying Jewish ;-)
But I still have the opinion, that people who are
following this
mailinglist and who have a hard time to choose a distro should begin
with experimenting. Patrick Useldinger has already read things about
distros and he has already tried FreeBSD. If you reach a dead point, you
should take *any* distro.
Any distro is not a good choice, it's actually no choice at all. I believe that it should be possible, with a minimal
number of
questions, to point you in a direction that will not frustrate you right
away.
I wasn't frustrated ;-) By reading your profile, I thought Slackware
would be the best for you (heavily biased opinion of course ;-). As you
told that you were primarly a user and not a geek, I wasn't sure anymore
and recommended Fedora as an alternative solution.
If a newbie chooses Gentoo, I am sure he will be lost.
A person
who knows things about Linux may be extremely pleased. That could have
been clarified in one simple question. Add a few more, and you're
probably close to a good answer.
If anybody still cares, I've just installed Slackware 10 and I have, for
the first time after FreeBSD, a *very* good feeling. I think I'll like
this one.
Good. Now you have passed the dead point ;-) You have now installed a
distro that is not too complicated for new users, but that is also more
streamlined and simple than the fully automatized desktop distros (like
RH, SuSE, Mandrake). Good choice ;-)
By the way, you will see that OpenOffice is missing. You can download a
precompiled binary from the site http://www.openoffice.org that works on
any distro. Installation is a breeze (thanks to the graphical
installer). If you do not want to install OpenOffice in every home
directory (which takes over 220 Mb per user), remember to run the setup
program as root with the option -net: ./setup -net. After the root
install, run the setup program in the destination directory (not the
setup of the unpacked archive you ran as root) as a normal user. This
will take no more than 2Mb per user.
How did you get Slack 10? By bittorrend or thanks a mirror? Last time I
checked, no mirror had the new version. Anyways, I will not have the
time to try the next month.
Thanks to Patrick Kaell for recommending it.
Thanks for trying it :-)))
Patrick Kaell