newbie intro

[Lincoln Peters]

I have heard that Slackware is good, but I have also heard that it is 
terrible for the newbie (I have not tried Slackware myself, though!).  If 
you're already familiar with UNIX, you'll probably survive Slackware, 
otherwise, try Red Hat 7.1.

Another suggestion: If you don't know what you're doing, buy a packaged 
distro such as Red Hat Linux 7.1 Deluxe at Best Buy or some other retail 
store.  The retail distributions usually include some kind of technical 
support contract (on Red Hat: 30 days via telephone, 90 days via e-mail) 
which was a lifesaver for me when I was getting started.


>From: Ron Wickersham <rjw at alembic.com>
>Reply-To: <talk at nblug.org>
>To: talk at nblug.org
>Subject: Re: newbie intro
>Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 15:35:29 -0700 (PDT)
>
>hi Liz,
>
>don't forget that Slackware is still an excellent distribution.    i like
>it but who am i?
>
>also for your router consider Freesco, http://www.freesco.org.   i use it
>and it's easy (and small - runs on a box with only a floppy, no fixed disk
>required)
>
>-ron
>
>On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Liz Young wrote:
>
>---snip---
> > wasn't it Slackware?  Anyway, I haven't done much with Linux since
> > then, but recently picked up copies of SuSE (for my laptop) and
> > Mandrake (dual-booting on one Win2k PC, and testing server stuff on
> > another old clunker).
>


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