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Which OS is better?
Name: PC Tamer Date: November 13, 2003 at 11:06:19 Pacific OS: Linux CPU/Ram: 128MB IBM Laptop
Comment:
Which Linux is better: Red Hat, SuSe, or Mandrake?
Name: SailingGypsy Date: November 13, 2003 at 11:16:40 Pacific
Reply:
That is the proverbial 64 million dollars question.
It all comes down to personal taste and what you want or expect out of each. There are fans for every distro out there, and what makes it "user-friendly" and " appealing" to one user, is the " distro from hell" to another. So is up to you. So try them all as time allows and you'll come up with your favorite one.
Regards...
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Response Number 2
Name: retrogamer Date: November 13, 2003 at 11:41:42 Pacific
Reply:
I would say that probably the one acclaimed by the most to be the best would be Debian. Personally, I like slackware.
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Response Number 3
Name: Deputy DooDah Date: November 14, 2003 at 10:14:17 Pacific
Reply:
I like (and use) all three of them. My opinions:
Redhat: provides the most stable distro
Mandrake: provides the most programs /most versatile
Suse: Provides the Yast administration tool, which I just love.
None of the three are better (overall) than the other. They all have strengths in different areas. What it comes down to is; What are you using it for?
I haven't tried a Debian based distro yet, but those who use it swear by it. It seems that the Apt-get utility is what makes it so good. I'll bet it beats dependency hell.
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Response Number 4
Name: pete Date: November 14, 2003 at 14:23:11 Pacific
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well redhat will soon be obsolite mandrake is supposed to be dummy proof and novell just bought SuSe so it will probably be around for a while however i am going to try debian myself.
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Response Number 5
Name: Rick Date: November 14, 2003 at 17:22:57 Pacific
Reply:
I didn't like suse, keep crashing on me, red hat on the same machine seems bomb proof. Just my xperence.
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Response Number 6
Name: pete Date: November 14, 2003 at 18:04:36 Pacific
Reply:
fedora perhaps????
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Response Number 7
Name: Chewi Date: November 16, 2003 at 09:25:40 Pacific
Summary: Hi, I would like to know..which linux is better. I want to go for dual boot. I already have NT 4.0 installed on my machine and want to install Linux on on partition? Which is better : RedHat, SUSE, ...
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