Red Hat 9 or SuSe or ??

From: James Andrus (j.s.andrus_at_mabelll.net)
Date: 10/30/03 

Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 01:20:34 GMT

I am not even a newbie.

I have been thinking about playing with Linux this winter -- trying it out
on a spare PC. After becoming thoroughly confused by the Debian download
instructions and deciding that would take too long, I decided I should buy
an inexpensive commercial distribution. I have seen $40 Red Hat packages in
the store so I went to their website to get more info. And behold, they
have discontinued it. Now they have a $180 package (shades of Windows!) and
a Fedora Project that sounds like an ever-evolving OS (don't want that). My
question, since they didn't have any info on the Red Hat 9 package on their
site, is would I be better off buying a leftover $40 Red Hat package (they
are in the store) or should I go with low-end SuSe (or something else),
based on present features and expected future support?

I use a PC for internet, word processing, spreadsheets, someday simple C
programs.

Thanks,

Jim Andrus

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