Hallo,
Matthew Allen hat gesagt: // Matthew Allen wrote:
I am not going to turn this into a distro battle, I just want new users to have as much info as they need. Frank I very much respect all the stuff you have done (and the help I have personally received from you), but I worry about your advice for people who may just be starting out with linux.
In my mails I still am referring to Ed Kelly's disappointment with Red Hat 9. As he wrote earlier, that he upgraded his old RH 7.2 to 9, I draw the conclusion, that he's no newbie anymore. I do think, that Debian is different enough from Redhat, that someone, who is fed up with Redhat - his subject was "RH9 is rubbish", could give it a try - as well as some of the other, more bare bones distributions like Gentoo.
I didn't intend to give this as advice to a linux newbie. In my earlier mail I wrote "you might want to go hardcore and install Debian". (Although I do think, that Debian is a good choice for newbies, as well, but that's a whole other story more appropriate for linux-audio-user). If I sounded like dissing other distributions or other opinions, I'd like to apologize. This never was my intention.
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__