Re: Recommendations on switching from RedHat to new distro?

From: J.O. Aho (user_at_example.net)
Date: 01/01/05 

Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 18:26:16 +0100

Scott Smith wrote:
> Some time back, I installed RedHat Linux on a Dell Dimension XPS T800r box
> at home and set up CVS, Samba, Eclipse, and a few other things on it. About
> a year later, RedHat stopped free updates/support for weekend users like me,
> so I'm looking to switch to another distro.

If you like RedHat and don't want to relearn admin tools, I would suggest you
stay with RedHat, the only differences today is that the "home user" RedHat is
called Fedora, check fedora.redhat.com

> A friend at work recommended SuSE. I went to the web site, but had trouble
> figuring out what to download. The RedHat stuff came on CD and was easy to
> set up.

SuSe don't allow you to download the latest version of it untill a month or so
after release, they want you to buy it. If you want to have easy to download
links, then visit www.linuxiso.org

> I don't want to start a war here, but can someone recommend a distro that is
> friendly to a non-power user such as myself? (and maybe point me to the CD
> images or whatever?)

RedHat/Fedora

fedora.redhat.com

x86_32: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/
x86_64: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/x86_64/iso/
PPC: ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/iso/yellowdog-4.0-orion-*.iso

Have fun...

  //Aho

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