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| Thread ID: 22012 | 2002-07-09 17:40:00 | Linux | Greg S (201) | Press F1 |
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| 61169 | 2002-07-14 03:21:00 | They are all fairly large (in their later versions) I think they all want about 1 . 5 Gb now . Slackware would probably be easiest to make a minimal installation with . But that would need a bit of experience: it wouldn't be a matter of clicking on a selection box . RedHat is the "easiest to install" for me: I got CDs of RH on magazine covers (as well as a considerable range of others) . It's simple enough for my limited abilities . I had a few troubles with 7 . 2 --- the source of the kernel wouldn't compile and it took a few tries to get it right --- that aside, no troubles, except sometimes the size . I haven't seen Mandrake "free" CDs, so haven't tried it . I have Linux as a "grown-up" operating system to experiment with networking and software . I don't have it for "installing Linux" . Debian is respected, but it's really meant for people who want to take part in "developing" Linux . I've got a couple of machines using an early release of Slackware . Both are small systems: one on a 40 MB disk because it was 1996, and that was the one I found on a magazine CD (from which I could copy the floppies on a friend's CD-equipped computer), one on a 300 MB because RH7 . 2 insisted on installing stuff I told it not to install, then complained that it was out of disk . |
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