I'd say go with Woody (compared to Slack), provided you can do a boot off of CD...I wasn't aware of the boot-disk issue. I started with Potato about 8 months ago, and just apt-get updated to Woody in the last few weeks.
Tried Slack way back (a number of years ago) and found it more difficult for a newbie (I was that at the time). For a true newbie, I'd say go SuSE, or Mandrake. After cutting your teeth on a version, then slide into Debian (or something Debian based...like Progeny). In short, I've never been impressed with Slackware. On 15-Aug-2001 Gilles Pelletier wrote: > We're a small group mulling over the respective merits of Debian and > Slackware for a newbie. Of course, since apt-get takes care of installing > dependencies and upgrading the whole installed software, we were leaning > towards Debian. The newbie, even though his concerns for security are > limited, wouldn't have to care too much about it. > > Only a "tiny" problem remains. Potato is not up to date and it's apparently > difficult to upgrade software unless you get patches at specialised places > ( http://kde.tdyc.com for the KDE 2.x serie, for instance. ) You then must > hope the patch is well done. > > We though about installing Woody, but, as you people know, the boot > disquettes don't boot yet. Potato must first be installed and an upgrade > made to Woody. Newbies might not appreciate... > As for Woody, once again, it's going to be out... when it's ready, which > might as well mean in June 2002, one year after Slack was out. > > How the hell is Volkerding and his small pack managing to put out Slack 8 > with XFree86 4.1.0, kernel 2.4.5, KDE 2.1.2, GNOME 1.4, glibc 2.2.3, > Mozilla, Galeon, Nautilus, ProFTPD, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, mod_ssl, mod_php... > and all the usual utilities, hardly 3 months after Mandrake rushed out > their broken down distro? Has anybody heard that Slackware isn't safe : ) ? > > Is apt-get really worth this huge delay? We do plan to teach the newbie > some fundamentals. > > BTW, in case you wouldn't know, even newbies like to be cutting edge... > even more so than oldies I'd say : ) > > GP > > -- > La Masse Critique > > Le sionisme est aujourd'hui aux juifs ce que le nazisme était aux Allemands > chrétiens. > > http://pages.infinit.net/mcrit/sionisme.html > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------- Arlen Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Beware of a dark-haired man with a loud tie. This message was sent by XFmail (Linux) -o) /\\ _\_v The penguins are coming... the penguins are coming... ----------------------------------------
