[NBLUG/talk] linux distro

[Mark Janes]

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Mark Street wrote:

|The ISO download is not free on the new SuSE distro.  You can still
pull an
|FTP install of 8.2 off the net for no charge.  I did it with 8.1 last year.
|
|On Wednesday 28 May 2003 16:20, Bob Blick wrote:
|
|>Dustin Mollo said:
|>
|>>i've heard good things about suse.  my biggest problem is that they
|>>don't distribute a fully-free version.  all of the cd's we've ever
|>>gotten to hand out at nblug events have been what they call 'demo'
|>>versions.
|>
|>True, the current versions are never free. 8.2 is the current version, but
|>you can download 8.1 from their ftp site. 8.1 is what I'm running, it
|>still feels pretty new.
|
|
While I agree with Street that Slackware is more 'pure' Linux than SuSE
(and he's TOO right in stating the install looks like m$ Windows- and,
regrettably, more so, it seems, with each upgrade), if what you want is
to get out  the gates of Gates, a plug-and-pray Linux distro such as Red
Hat,  SuSE, or Mandrake might provide the running system first, as well
as a base system to fall back on when you wipe out the kernel or a hard
drive partition or two or all. My experience was, after futile struggles
with Caldera and Red Hat (I could get them to boot up but Internet
connection wasn't happening), I finally got a SuSE system going.  It was
also the first distro I found that worked with USB. After I got a fully
operational Linux box going there was no looking back.

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