[Preston] Getting Fedora to Work

[Ian Entwistle]

Red Hat is not the way forward for you. I recall you seem to have been
through most distros having answered queries on Mandrake, Suse and
others for you. For a beginner Mandrake is definitely the way to go. But
before you install it hoping everything is going to go swimmingly do
some research about what hardware you have in your PC. Use google to
search for things like 'Netgear MA521+ linux' where that is my Wifi
card. See if there are reports of it working or not. At least that way
you will know if you are likely to experience problems or not. 

Linux is a perfectly capable replacement for Windows, it may need a
little more research before you start, thats all. For working with
Websites, Quanta and Bluefish spring to mind as suitable software
packages but there are lots more, its up to you to choose what suits teh
way your brain is wired.

Ian

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 17:03 +0000, Granville Cousins wrote:
> Hello Gareth,
> 
> Hello PLUG,
> 
> I am thinking that it may be a better choice to go for either Red Hat
> Linux 9 or Red Hat Linux Enterprise rather than persisting with Fedora
> Core releases. The reason being that these distributions have been
> tried and tested in the field and are likely to incure less problems
> when it comes to useing them as workable operating systems. May I ask
> for your oppinion on this? What I would like idealy is a viable
> replacement for Microsoft Windows Operating Systems. I have purchased
> an AppleMac G4 Powerbook which is very stable and works well. But I
> feel much more comfortable with a Windows based system. My main use is
> for manageing and designing my Website and running my data base.
> 
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Ian Entwistle <entwisi at dsl.pipex.com>