Go ahead and poke holes, I need the ventilation. Actually, if that's the most vicious reply I get, I'll be tickled.
Joebewan On Saturday 06 July 2002 04:06 pm, Jon Doe wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 15:28:16 -0500 > > Price Technology <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are they returns or first time migrations ?? > > > > I consider RedHat to be the defacto standard Linux distribution. More > > people have heard of RedHat than any other. That's the reason I chose > > RedHat in the beginning and the reason I'm sticking with it. > > > > I've had others try to convince me to follow other distributions and > > some have given compelling, alomost convincing, reasons. When you > > start looking for books on the subject however, RedHat has been > > written about more than any other, surpassing even Linux itself. (No > > I don't have any statistics here, just my observations. Call me old > > fashioned, but I'm a book freak) > > > > I'd say it's probably not a question of returning to RedHat so much as > > it's a question of migrating from somewhere else. > > > > Joebewan > > May I poke a small hole in that theory? Sorry just have to..lol. > Nothing personal. > I did start off with Redhat around 6.2 I think it was. Then found > Mandrake and used that for a short time. I got frustrated with > dependancy problems when trying to install/upgrade programs I > wanted/needed > to use. So in my search I found SuSE. I have used SuSE longer than > any distro, keep in mind I have only been using linux for about two > years. But with the newest version of SuSE I started having the > frustraitions of dependancies as I did with Mandrake. > Now I am using Red Hat 7.3 and am soo amazed at the lack > of dependancy problems I have had with it. Keep up the good > work Red Hat! > Red Hat takes a little more knowledge to operate than the above > mentioned distro's in my opinion, but well worth it. > I see a trend in linux distro's. A trend that is more geared to > the Windows user thats migrating. Easier to install so they don't > have to learn very much to get a linux system up. This is all > fine, but I think some distro's are losing sight of linux and > the apeal of configuring it yourself without a dependancy problem > with every new program install or upgrade. > > I guess these other distro's beleive your either to stupid to > run linux so they make it easy, or they figure your such a > linux geek you can deal with the dependancies. I think I'm somewhere > in the middle there. I'm not a complete idiot about linux, but > I'm far from guru status. Red Hat is just right for me. > > Bourne again RedHat User > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Valhalla -- Linux good, Fire bad _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
