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Re: [LUG] Wanting to really put an effort to learn Linux properl



On 08-Jan-2002 at 18:26:41 Alex Charrett wrote:
I'll stand up and say "Redhat for newbies, Debian for pros".
In what way for pros rather than redhat, mandrake, etc?

This is something I wonder about too, I would say that you need a greater 
understanding of Linux to be able to use debian than say Red Hat or 
Mandrake, but I'd like to think I'm fairly well versed by now and still 
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use Red Hat the majority of the time, have 1 debian installation and then 
theres Solaris etc :)

Okay, so wouldn't you use redhat *because* you know linux? Why bother with
fiddling around with things (which it sounds like is required with
debian) when you don't need to, but you still know how to change things
if problems occur? In that respect I'd rather spend an hour (say) installing
redhat which does most of the work for me, rather than (say) two hours
installing debian where (it seems) I would have to configure more things
myself, but still end up with the machine configured and working the same as
the redhat one :-) 


John.

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