Re: [Sheflug] Re: Suggestions of distro?

[Barrie Bremner <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris J <cej [at] nccnet.co.uk> writes:

    Chris> Will wrote:
    >>  I have to disagree on that - OpenBSD is a very harsh
    >> install. IMO most Linux users would not have seen anything
    >> quite like it before.
    >> 

    Chris> Then Richard scribbled:
    >>  No, it's easy to install. The instructions are on the inside
    >> of every CD that you buy from the Open BSD people.

    Chris> It's a half and half. If the user is technically minded,
    Chris> then OpenBSD will install quite straight-fowardly. The
    Chris> difficult part with OpenBSD is the disk partitioning as on
    Chris> x86 architecture you have to partition the disk with a
    Chris> *single* partition (well you can use two or more, but that
    Chris> gets interesting), and within that one partition you create
    Chris> a disklabel - it doesn't use "standard" partitions, per se.

Just to throw in my 2p on this one.

I've installed Redhat, OpenBSD, Debian, FreeBSD and Slackware
pretty much in that order over the years.

I'd say that they're all pretty straightforward installs - not a
problem - stick in the CD/boot floppies get a booting system most of
the time :-)

The hard part is configuring the systems.

Redhat - urgh. Clear out the cruft, and shut off services.

OpenBSD - erm - OK, figure out how to do anything, get patches,
install ports. Hard work. Installing from the tarballs is a little
wierd.

Debian - still haven't mastered dselect, but apt rocks, shame Potato
is so far behind for desktop use. 

FreeBSD - OOooo. Once again, needs quite a bit of configuration, but
it's all on the CD, the manuals rock and it's all nice and current.

It might just be me, but I'd rather have something like Redhat (I
guess SuSE and Mandrake too) that can get GNOME/KDE + user apps going
in no time, plus server packages that aren't much harder.

The BSDs are a little bit too much work for me, but I haven't spent
much time learning up on them.

Roll on Woody tho :-)

Baz.


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