G'day >1) Would you recommend a distribution disk for a newbie? > >2) Are there different ones to get? <what are the differences?> > >3) I know this is a Debian list, but do you recommend Debian for >user-friendliness? What are its advantages/disadv. ? I read an article about >Red Hat being good, but it's expensive (£50 = $85)
Well, I have now installed both RedHat 4.2 and Debian 1.3, and found them both pretty easy to install (actually, debian was a bit of a pain, but only because I was using an old laptop with a small HD and no CD-ROM!), and if I had to install one again, i think i'd probably go with debian... Redhat is pretty easy to install, but it seems to me (even tho I've only been using Linux for a few months) that the guts of Debian is a little easier to get a hand on than RedHat... RedHat has some nice X-Windows configuration tools, but using them you never really learn what's going on, and changing something by hand then becomes quite difficuly... >4) Can I dual-boot Windows NT and Debian? Yes, you certainly can... My system boots between RedHat, Win95 and WinNT4. There is actually a HOWTO that describes how to add Linux to the NT boot loader, which it pretty cool :) NTFS support in Linux is still a little shakey (seems to work, but i wouldn't want to bet important data on it) YMMV, but I tended to find that Linux was easist to set up on a disk by itself (that's if you have a HD to spare...) but lots of ppl seem to be using dual-boot systems, so I guess it can't be too hard! Anyway, hope that helped a little... damon ======== Damon Muller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Web Page: www.sub.net.au/~tr It's not a sense of humor. It's ICQ UIN: 2920281 a sense of irony disguised as one. PGP Key ID: 0x232C09E1 - Bruce Sterling -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
