Hey, you know, I just realized that I made the mistake of not completing
the comparison fairly. While everything I said about Linux versus *BSD
stands, people might wonder why choose a *BSD at all?
To the user, there is not really any good reason, unless you have a bunch
of *BSD friends who nag
In terms of major distributions I would divide them into a few
familyies(sic):
debian:
debian
corel
storm
redhat:
redhat
mandrake
other major distributions:
suse
turbo
caldera
everything else :)
members of the debian family are "
"Lilly S." wrote:
>
> DOes it
> really matter in the end what version I have?
I don't really think it does.
I use Debian mostly because my most handy helper (my husband)
uses Debian.
Jenn V.
--
"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Thanks, Alex, that was exactly the kind of general overview I was looking
for.
Lilly, comparisons between Linux distributions are somewhat easier to find
(just do a search with your favourite engine for "linux distribution
comparison" or something like that), but a nice short one from the Linux
J
Hey Julia,
There's nothing wrong with being a NetBSD user. I used to run NetBSD all
the time, just because I wanted to be different from all the rest of the
Linux-mongers.
I don't know of any comprehensive list. I think this is because the
distribution models for the various Linux distributio
I would be interested in this as well. For the last two years+ I have been
trying to install various versions of Red Hat, to no avail. The problem is
dual boot. I installed Red Hat on two machines at work, and they work like
a charm. I tried today to install Mandrake 7.1 today because it came with
Kind folks:
Please don't be mad. I am thinking of installing netBSD, to play with and
to keep my linuxppc partition company.
Before I leap I would like to look over a comparison between the unices,
or maybe just a superficial "similarities and differences in UI" but I
have looked to no avail. H
Hiya,
On a friends machine, Netscape (various versions of 4.x have been used)
always crashes with an Illegal Instruction...and a core dump. It happened on
with SuSE 6.1, so lasy night, he blew it away and stuck RedHat 6.2 on - and
its still crashing with illegal instruction whenever the netsc
Hi,
I can't get my LS120 to mount under Linux. No problems when running
DOS(4DOS). I have set the floppy options in my BIOS to off. 'dmesg'
shows
'hdd: LS-120 CSMO 05 UHD Floppy, ATAPI Floppy drive'
I have the following line in fstab. Where /dev/ls120 is a link to
/dev/hdd.
/dev/ls120 /
