newbies linux adventure

[Jeff]

Go with Slackware!   :)  I've had nothing but great luck with it. but you gotta work....

At 05:25 PM 11/6/2001, you wrote:
>Curtis Zinzilieta wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, John (EBo) David wrote:
>> 
>> > Nancy Sollars wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Red 7x installers fail often
>> >
>> > and they want us to buy the thing? hmmm I hope someone from RH is paying
>> > attention...
>> >
>> >   EBo --
>> 
>> Yup.  I've been busy and am just catching up on all my not-on-fire email
>> and noticed this.
>> 
>> So, I'll try to answer questions or get problems escalated up the chain to
>> those who can help.  What brought this comment about?  I've personally
>> installed Red Hat on literally dozens of different types of systems
>> without problems.  Can someone (Alan?  Nancy?) give me some specifics?
>> 
>> If this doesn't seem appropriate for the list, feel free to email me
>> privately.
>
>Hi Curtis,
>
>My motivation for responding thus was to see if any of the RH srew were
>still listening and to let them know there were complaints... 
>Personally I have been using SuSE for the past 2 to 3 years.  I am
>seriously considering switching as I have not been enamered with SuSE's
>support.  The 4 distro's I am considering is slack, debian, RH, and
>Mandrake. and frankly I AM paying attention.
>
>Glad that you are onboard with the RH team, and thanks for following. up
>unfortunately I have since deleated the original messages and cannot
>reproduce the chain easily.  The general gist IIRC is that one of the
>newbies was having serious trouble with his linux install and made some
>specific comments on what was breaking during the install.  It is now
>suspected that he may have a bad sim, but that was the one case.  The
>person who replied has had other experiences.  My experience with RH
>(this being years past) was that old stable hardware installed just
>fine, newer stuff had problems and the bleading edge was like jugling a
>running chainsaw.  But regardless, I would run any Linux over Windows 9
>days out of 10 (the exception being low level hardware control which DOS
>makes easy, but give RT-Linux a couple more years...)
>
> EBo --
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