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View Poll Results: Which Distro is the MOST user freindly?
SuSE 10 20.41%
RedHat 9 18.37%
Mandrake 21 42.86%
Debian 4 8.16%
Slackware 5 10.20%
Caldera 1 2.04%
Corel 1 2.04%
Storm 1 2.04%
TurboLinux 0 0%
Are you nutts? They're all hard. SOME OTHER DISTRO OF COURSE! 4 8.16%
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Old 06-12-2002, 07:10 PM   #16
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shashshshshehehenoueh, maybe you should brush up a bit on the distros out there gentto is growing rapidly, i'm probably gonna switch to it soon...... and of course EVERYONE has heard of lindows. and that's enough said about that....
 
Old 06-12-2002, 10:32 PM   #17
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So would you recommend gento to a total linux newbie/idiot like myself?
 
Old 06-13-2002, 06:20 AM   #18
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probably not, everything gets compiled from source, so an installation over the net will take abuot 8 hours minimum, and you have to instal it all at a pretty low level, and of course it doesn't use rpms, which would scare of most people...
 
Old 06-13-2002, 06:26 AM   #19
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I C. Thanx for the info. I might go for it just for the heck of learning things the hardcore way
 
  


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