[Klug-general] Distro Wars

[Peter]

I probably didn't read the info properly and just assumed the kernal was 
included.

I told you the Big Dummies Book said something about me.

I've got a new Epson printer and I'm going to play with that for a while 
on Fedora. Who knows - it might even work.

Peter.

George Prowse wrote:

> "No kernel installed"? Didn't you choose a kernel somewhere? Its been 
> a while since i've used Mandrake but you should have been given the 
> choices between vanilla-sources and others like mm-sources, 
> ck-sources, love-sources and selinux.
>
> George
>
>
> Peter wrote:
>
>> Hi Laurence,
>>
>> The poll was a bit of fun. It was useful to me because most of the 
>> votes given to Mandrake on the grounds it was good for a beginner 
>> like me. It was a pity I couldn't load it. It came up error 'No 
>> Kernal Installed' so I'm back to Fedora Core 1.
>>
>> I think that sums up the philosophy in your message.
>>
>> Peter.
>>
>> Laurence Southon wrote:
>>
>>>> Peter wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> For Against
>>>>> Mandrake 7
>>>>> SUSE 2
>>>>> Ubuntu 1 1
>>>>> Gentoo 2 1
>>>>> Fedora 1 2
>>>>> Debian 2
>>>>> Novell Desktop 1
>>>>>
>>>>> Many thanks to everyone who has responded to my queries.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I won't add a vote but merely make the observation that one of the 
>>> great things about Linux is that we have choice, and that choice can 
>>> be made from personal preference as well as from a consideration of 
>>> the task to be achieved. Any discussion of what is best, is, in my 
>>> view, fruitless and a waste of time unless it is qualified by "best 
>>> at what, and for whom?".
>>>
>>> I guess I'm conservative (note the lower case "c"!), as I run 
>>> vanilla Debian Woody, not even X installed - all command line stuff, 
>>> but my interest is servers that will remain up for months, years 
>>> even. Trouble is they run so well I forget how to do certain things 
>>> when I want to change something!
>>>
>>> Remember if you don't like your first choice you can always change!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Laurence Southon
>>>
>>>
>>>
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