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Author Re: Recommendations on switching from RedHat to new distro?
Madhusudan Singh

2004-12-30, 5:48 pm

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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?)
>
> Thanks very much in advance.
>
> -Scott


I moved from RH to Debian Sarge. Haven't had a cause to complain. Its solved
my package management problems too.
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