[Wolves] Fedora Core 3

[Tim Humpherson]

Thanks Kevan for your comments.  Have taken this into consideration. 
I might go back to installing SuSE 9.1 professional.

I'll await Peter's reply....  he might agree with your views, but then
again, his views might not be the same as yours.  As usual, I welcome
anyone's feedback from any LUG members.

Cheers.

Tim.



On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:58:44 +0000, Kevanf1 <kevanf1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:33:26 +0000, Tim Humpherson
> <tim.humpherson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > OK Peter,
> >
> > I have tried the following Distros:
> >
> > 1. Debian (favoured by Jono and my first attempt to install Linux
> > OS.....pretty hard, but I'll save that for when I get used to Linux
> > first)
> >
> > 2. Xandros (not bad, but difficult to get good support)
> >
> > 3. Mandrake 10.1 (It's alright, dunno if you would recommend me that or not?)
> >
> > 4. SuSE 9.2 Professional - Pretty cool and I liked it very much, but
> > tricky when I tried to install softwares.  Maybe I didn't read
> > properly re the rpm package instructions?
> >
> > 5. Fedora Core 3 (I'm using it currently) - Very nice package, I guess
> > I might have been influenced to choose FC3 as per Linux Format's
> > reviews.  Just because lots of people favours Apt-Get technology
> > (Debian) can be used under FC3.  I don't know how to get that done.
> > Moreover, I'm suprised that Thunderbird 1.0 does not work under FC3?
> > I wonder why?
> >
> > So, Peter, just tell me which Linux Distro would you RECOMMEND for a
> > beginner like me?
> >
> 
> I know this was directed at Peter but being fairly new to Linux - I'm
> not counting my years of abortive attempts since about 1998 -  I would
> say the top two distributions for a newcomer have to be either SuSE
> 9.1 or 9.2 and Mandrake 10 or 10.1  I find that things just work with
> SuSE 9.2  My PC is not really powerful enough to run Mandrake 10.1 for
> some reason but it is a low powered PC with an AMD 350 K2 CPU and
> 256mb of PC100 RAM.  The graphics card is a lowly 16mb Voodoo Banshee
> 3dfx and Linux does not like to play with 3d acceleration with this
> particular card.  At some future date I will upgrade it probably to a
> NVidia 64mb card.
> 
> --
> Take care.
> Kevan Farmer
> 
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