[LUNI] Re: New to Linux

[Larry Garfield]

Jirsa, Jeff wrote:
> I disagree that Debian can be easily installed by newbies.  I wouldn't
> recommend Slackware or FreeBSD (yes I know, its not Linux) either.
> The installers for these distros are as crude as Red Hat 5.x, IMHO.

I didn't say it's a first-timer install.  I said that its installer 
isn't as bad as some people like to claim it is.  (Nowhere near as hard 
as, say, Gentoo. <g>)  And if someone is buying a programming language, 
there's a good chance that they have at least someone on staff who knows 
enough about Linux to make it through the Debian installer.  They really 
can't afford to not support it.  (Which isn't hard, debian stable, as I 
said, is a very known quantity.)

> For a newbie, I would go with Mandrake, Red Hat, or SuSE.  All are 
> usually available at Best Buy, CompUSA, or Micro Center.

You don't want to get the copies there.  MicroCenter still stocks 
Mandrake 7.  That's what, 2 years old?  3?

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