Linux WHich linux

Which linux is best, i wanted red hat, but would like a chge and see somthing diffferent or better?? is it better???

Or wht else is there
ben

 

its down to personal choice really, and depends to what extent your want to configure things, and how fast you wanna learn.

Redhat will do practically everything for you, whereas debian wont. Im personally using debian but ive heard good things about gentoo/slackware etc

 

Try out stuff, if you like it, keep it. If you tire of it, try something else. Not like blank CDs cost $100 each

 

I like debain 2

 

Redhat and Mandrake are probably the easiest to install... because they are very very user friendly during installing. I love debian, and wouldn't use anything else.

I've heard Gentoo is awesome, but takes many hours of annoying reading/installing to get it running. But once past that point, nothing but good things about it.

When you are deciding distros, also take into consideration the package systems each distro uses. Redhat/Mandrake's RPM system is supposed to be the best, in my opinion Debian's DEB packages, and apt system is the best, because of the built in dependencies, etc.

There's my 2 cents... good luck choosing.. it all comes down to opinion, and you may go through 5 or 6 installs before you find the distro that suits you best.

 

I hate pre-compiled packages, source tarballs all the way for me.

 

OK,i just downloaded red hat 9.0 and i cant boot..??? why


This is wht on cd 1, who else has it can they do a print screen and show wht they have on it




thts my cd 1, why wont it boot.

Yes its set 2 boot on cd-rom

 

Folder: dosutils
Folder: images
Folder: isolinux
Folder: RedHat

.discinfo
autorun
EULA
GPL
readmes
release-notes
RPM-GPG-KEY
TRANS.TBL


that's what's on mine...

 

The autorun script is what your missing.

Without it, the computer scans the CD, but finds nothig to tell it to do something, so it just passes it over and hands of to the hard drive.

Looks like you'll have ot re download it, or try re burning it, maybe just the burn messed up.

Make sure you get your CDs from a reliable source and that you run teh checksums, and then when installing, that you run the media check. Nothing quite like getting to the install process, ahving it format your drive, and start installing only to ask for CD2 and have CD2 knackered up.

 

Ubermich could u send me that file tht Kargin said, or Kargin can u send it 2 me

 

Contact me on either ICQ or MSN, I can't eMail files bigger than a meg, and your missing other files as well as the autorun.

Hopefully your not missing any packages on the other CDs too . .

You did downlaod the ISO images using a proper FTP client, running in binary right ? ASCII will **** up the files, and guess which one IE uses

 

Actually, I have downloaded two distros (freebsd and mandrake) from ie, and both are fine. Well through the download program of ie, not ftp.
The web site is http://www.linuxiso.org/
And md5 checksums are available.
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