Re: Linux distro for newbies

At 12:58 AM 9/19/2006, you wrote:
>Personally, I would be looking at a stripped down FC5 install with Yum
>running in daily cron job, possibly with XPDE installed if the users are
>crossing from Doze.  Main reason is I can maintain FC easily myself
>(having used Red Had since version 5) and availability of patches.

Well, so can I, but what I can do and what a raw newbie can do are 
two different things! ;)  As for FC, I've gone off it a bit.  Red Hat 
do weird things there.  Instead, I tend to use CentOS for new 
projects, when I want a Red Hat flavour.  CentOS (being basically 
RHEL) just feels more solid and has less quirks.

>Having said this, patches are easily attainable for most major distros
>now, but as I said I'm comfy with RH/FC distros.

:)

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