On approximately Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 09:11:43AM -0600, John Purser wrote:
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> If you've got the bucks or the bandwidth then you might want to get a few
> sets of CD's and have a little install party once a month or so. Use a
> distro for a while, talk to the people on each mailing list, then a month
> later blow it away and start over with a new one. See which one you really
> like.
>
> Good luck and have fun!
>
I agree that a "install party" is the way to go. To start out though, I would
reccomend one that is easy to install. Go out and by a nice book with a distro
in it and learn from that. Once you feel comfortable and/or break it, install a
new one. The first one I used is RH, after a few months I broke something, so I
decided to try some different ones. Suse was yucky, Slackware was nice, I
almost stayed with it, but I had a yearning for Debian. I just felt that I had
to try it, and I never looked back. Now I haven't wiped my drives for 2 years!
Debian rules.
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