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Re: Best Place to get Linux
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Wed, 7 Oct 1998 04:41:07 GMT
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Matt Marshall <Matt@rapturesoft.hypermart.net> wrote:
> What's the best dist of linux and where can I get it. I'm finally going to
> set up a linux box. I just need to find a place to set the computer up. Plus
> good debate topic, what's better X-windows, or plain command line, and if
> it's X-windows what's the best desktop thing
I use Redhat 5.1. I played with Slackware a long time ago. I don't
know enough about the pros and cons of different distrobutions to even
begin to advise someone.
I do know, however, of a cheap place to get it if you don't want to
bother with ftp'ing a few hundred megs.
http://www.cheapbytes.com
Now sure, I could ftp everything on the 1.99 redhat 5.1 CD I got from
them down to my machine at work easily. In fact, more easily than
most since sunsite.utk.edu is right across the street from me. Then I
could burn all that on a CD, a CD I paid a buck for. But it would
take a while, and I'd have to fiddle with directories and junk like
that. Much better to pay the $6 or so including shipping to get a CD
that I pop into my drive after fdisking and wiping out all partitions,
then run autoboot.exe.
I had Linux installed and networking up and running in under 30
minutes, I'd say. Not bad for a novice.
And you don't have to choose between X and CLI. You get both at the
same time, in a much more real way than Windows/dos prompts ever
provided.
I'm currently playing with X-windows windows managers and such. FVWM2
comes with Redhat and it's ok. I installed and setup KDE yesterday.
Probably going to try Gnome sometime this week. If I understand
things correctly I can use any single one I want at any time, not just
one forever.
My cjc account still uses FVWM2. Another account I have on the box
uses KDE. I'll make another for Gnome.
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| (...) <numerous methods of getting it snipped> We have had redhat placed on free cover cd's put out by the computer press a few times, and they have now put out a different flavour as well. So I will be buying an old pc from work for about 50 quid (...) (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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