As a guy who began with Debian, I have one comment:
I did not realize I was "under the hood".

You bring up an interesting point which seems to promote
how far the GUI/X has come in the past fewe years.

I have about 7 servers running Deb, and wouldn't think
of running anything else: They just work. Of course, they
are all headless/mouseless/keyboardless. They do their job,
I have little to do in mine :-)

v/r
Mike
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 12:55:27PM -0700, Jim wrote:
> Just a point of clarification.  Debian (and Slackware) are the hackers dreams 
> in terms of learning the guts of Linux.  But that doesnt mean you cant learn 
> just as much with any of the others.  They just present you with a very 
> familiar type of GUI interface that makes using it right out of the box 
> easier.  You can still dig under the hood any time you want.
> 
> On Thursday 19 July 2001 12:39, you wrote:
> > If you really want to _learn_ linux, not just how to use it, but the
> > technical nitty-gritty --Go with Debian.  If you want to simply use linux
> > as you would use windows then Mandrake is probably best.
> >
> > There's no better way to learn than diving in.  Sink or swim.  I must have
> > re-installed Slackware 5,000 times when I first started learning linux.
> >
> > Blake Barnet
> > Sr. Unix Administrator
> > DevelopOnline
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ron Russell [mailto:ron@siliconbuddha.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 11:43 AM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Introductions
> >
> >
> > Hello all.  After my post to aztechlist I was referred over to here for
> > being a good place to learn Linux stuff.
> > I'm a Microsoft bigot and it looks like I'm turning to the dark side. <-
> > Please don't flame me that was a joke.
> >
> > I'll be installing my first Linux OS this weekend and hopefully getting it
> > to dual boot with Win2k.  I haven't decided on a distribution yet, but it
> > will probably be Redhat.  I've been told that I should get the redhat Linux
> > bible that has the 7.0 distribution so I think I'll be buying that.  Is the
> > Red Hat 7.0 distribution relatively current?
> >
> > And I'll be getting the O'Riley "Running Linux" book as well (due to
> > popular opinion).
> >
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