[linux-help] Re: More Info on hardware

[Anne McCadden <ironrose@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the input Nate.  John, the offer still stands if you want the 
cd's.  All of the linux distros are cheaper and more stable then 
Windoze.  The next release of SuSe will be including Star Office 6.0 and 
the professional is cheapter than RedHat.  I'm about to decide to switch 
to SuSe.  

Different people have different reasons for using linux, some are into 
programming, some are into networking, and some just like the path less 
traveled.  Whatever your reason, welcome aboard the runaway train of 
Open Source software.

If you want the linux CD's, let me know and you can pick them up at my 
work.  I work at National Computer in the service dept.  I won't take 
them to work unless you let me know ahead of time.  ttyl ~Anne

Nate Bargmann wrote:

>* John Heffington <john1982@xxxxxxx> [2002 Jul 16 22:30 -0500]:
>
>>Is Debian up-to-date? Like the same as RedHat 7.3?
>>If it is as good, I'll might just do it.
>>
>
>Debian Stable?  No.
>
>Debian Testing, soon to be Stable, is reasonably up-to-date, but I'm not
>sure if it is available on CD yet.
>
>Debian Unstable is leading edge and is probably in the same league as
>the latest offerings from Mandrake, RedHat and others.  Debian referes
>to this branch as Unstable, not because all the software packages are
>unstable, rather it is the development branch of the distro and some
>things are put in that break other packages.  Unstable is not considered
>suitable for production systems like servers and such.
>
>Testing is the go-between branch and right now is getting far fewer 
>updates than a few months back.
>
>You might check Cheapbytes http://www.cheapbytes.com and see if they
>have Debian Woody (a.k.a. Testing) CDs available.  Even if they are a
>few months old, you can install and then update the system off the
>Internet quite easily.
>
>If you try Debian, you'll probably find the learning curve steeper than
>with Red Hat and especially Mandrake.  On the other hand it's not as
>steep as Slackware (unless Slack has changed markedly in the past six
>years ;-)
>
>Debian is a volunteer project with the aim to build a Free Software OS
>available for many hardware architectures.  All its software is freely
>available and Debian obligates no one financially to fully utilize its
>offering.  Initially, Debian appears rougher than some of the commercial
>offerings, but it is well integrated and its ability to seemlessly
>update anything from a single package to a complete point release
>upgrade is legendary and is the standard Red Hat et. al. are trying to
>meet.
>
>There is a fair amount of documentation at http://www.debian.org
>covering installation and the like.  Remember, Linux is Linux and most
>all the distros are very similiar and differ mostly in look and somewhat
>in feel but the major packages are common to all.  Some do a better job
>with less common hardware and it's very hard to say which is best for
>your machine.  If you want to try different ones, Anne's offer is about
>the best deal going.
>
>- Nate >>
>


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