Re: [LUG] lurking and learning

[Alex Charrett <chas at termisoc.org>]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Tom Laithwaite wrote:

> glibc, and inetd are really what i meant by 'vital' you don't have a zip
> prog in win you can't d/l practicaly anything. 

Aah - in Linux/UNIX if you dont have tar and a c compiler available youre
stuffed on that score.  Although the're not much use without the base
libraries :)

> oh and there is no way i'm changing distro's! Suse was not easy to
> install and its meant to be a 'beginners' package. I had to use Yast1 in
> the end cos Yast2 hardly gave me a choice what to install. 

To be honest from some of what youve been saying I would ask you to
consider RedHat.  The installation (really is) a breeze.  And IMHO its the
best dist for novices.  I used Redhat for thr 1st 2-3 years of linux use
and have only recently stared with SuSE.  Especially if you're not sure
*exactly* what you want on the system.

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