RE: linux

[akira@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> >> Red Hat appears to come with a broader selection of software;
> 4.2 and 5.0
> >> ship as 2 CDROMS, 5.1 ships as 3. SUSE ships as FOUR, with a
> full install
> >> taking up to 9 Gb!

woah! that's almost half my hard drive! hehe just kidding, wish i had that
big of hard drive, no really that's way to much, i just hope that's stuff
that normally you wouldn't need.

and i remember a long time running slackware with kernel 1.2.3, i had a 250
meg partition with only like a 50-65mb install, but that was like before it
had ELF support. but now, 2gb for slackware is about right for most people,
heck now i wouldn't reccomend linux on less then a gig..

i know this might seem like a stupid question, but is redhat any harder to
use? i heard one person on irc say that slackware is for idiots, maybe he's
just stupid or didn't know what he was talking about. i also heard NASA uses
debian, so well you'd think it'd be halfway decent if they did.

speaking of linux distrobutions, the worst has got to be mini-linux, the
copy i had was in one big zip you extract with the full pathname into
c:\linux on your dos partition, then load it with loadlin,  it was just an
edited version of slackware with some really ugly color scheme, but it had a
menu based ppp config and BitchX already installed.

i dunno, i think one of the reasons people don't use linux is just because
they don't know how to use it, or unfortunatly how to get it installed, well
slackware anyway. some people don't even know where to get it, but since
redhat is out in stores that makes it alot easier.

when i first used slackware, i got so sick of it, a major pain, so i deleted
it, later i'm like, man why the heck did i do that?! and reinstalled it. to
start i really never learned it from books or man pages, i just had alot of
help from friends and #linux on irc helped out alot.

i just love seeing people go in there and asking "hey, how do i make a
bootdisk?!" one person came in there and said it sucks because it only had
one console, turns out he didn't know about alt-f1, f2 etc hehe.

most linux books i really don't like, the thing that annoys me the most,
those linux books that are nothing but faq's and howto's from the net! but
the thing is, is that they charge like 50 bucks...