On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Frank Rocco wrote:
> I was also told that because Red Hat was on the cutting edge, it would not
> be as stable.
IMO this is nonsense.
Rawhide is on the cutting edge, the release versions are relatively
current, but include the latest *stable* versions, not the latest
development versions (with few exceptions where it makes sense).
Very often, being on the cutting edge and being stable are the same thing
actually (have a look at early versions of GNOME, which tended to crash a
lot, and have a look at its current version). Many updates are about
stability.
> I guess you talked me into going with Red Hat. Being a newbie and seeing so
> many distributions to choose from, makes my head spin.
> Life was easier when there was only windows.<g>
It's actually a good thing - even if one of the distributions sucks, they
often have a couple of good ideas that can quickly be integrated with the
distributions that don't suck. ;)
> However I got the Linux bug and won't go back.
Good idea, if you ask me.
> The only problem I had with Red Hat was running a TN5250 program from
> Freshmeat.net.
> It would not work correctly.
That's a problem of the application, not the distribution. I doubt running
it on any other distribution would be any different.
> How is wine?
Well... Some stuff works, other stuff doesn't. Completely depends on what
you want to run with it.
LLaP
bero
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