Re: How to pick a distro?

[Jeremy Abbott <jkbullfrog@comcast.net>]

Peter wrote:

>Hi,
>
>having read all the replies I would almost be scared to go to a Linux OS. It 
>is not that difficult at all. With Fedora I would call the installation a 
>child's or grandma's play, however, would recommend to do the partitioning 
>yourself after having read how to go about it.
>
>As for me slackware is even easier and faster to install, however, can be 
>bitchy afterwards. I have used SUSE once a long time ago so I can not speak of 
>it today. At that time I was not impressed.
>
>When I switched to Linux I had no one to consult at all. Bought RedHat 5.2 
>which had just come out, read carefully how to install, the had a very 
>comprehensive handbook, and have been with Linux ever since. There were some 
>problems in the beginning an account of my ignorance. I had only 16 MB RAM, a 
>very small HD and forgot what of a slow cycle of the processor resulting at 
>times in application crashes and what I call memory-run-aways.
>
>So just do it.
>
>Regards
>  
>
I bought Suse about a year ago.  Very nice Distro with package
management through Yast.  My problem with it though, was that it does
not come with a C compiler.  If all youare installing is binary
packeges, that's fine.  I wanted to do some compiling from source though.

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