Re: RH 6.0 !?!

[Tamas Papp]

On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Sven N. Thommesen wrote:

> Paul: 
> 
> Man, you really *do* have too much time on your hands, if you have already
> started messing with RedHat 6.0! It's barely out! Not even shipping!
> 
> I must say that at this point either OpenLinux 2.2 from Caldera or SuSE 6.1
> look more attractive than RedHat -- both include KDE *and* GNOME, and both
> include WordPerfect and StarOffice. OpenLinux even throws in BRU for backup
> and a version of Partition Magic! (All three seem to be 2.2.x kernel based,
> with glibc2.x.) At LinuxMall, OpenLinux and SuSE are both $39.95 while
> 'standard' RedHat is now $74.95. Though they promise a $40 stripped version
> later, without all the documentation, for the 'professionals'. Bah.
> 
> The RedHat site is getting less and less useful, imho. The stuff they have
> is all fluffied up to be readable and attractive to newbies, but as for
> 'old-timers' -- well, a short and succinct list of what's new and improved
> in 6.0 is nowhere to be found, nor can I seem to find a list of what's
> included on their 'application' CD which is used to justify the $75 price
> tag. I'm not paying twice the price for a bunch of time-limited demos!
> 
> Time to set ncftp to work at the office, I guess ;-)

Debian GNU/Linux works well with Swarm, too. I just put the necessary debs
on, and the installation was ready. One can get a set of Debian CDs for
$4 (see www.debian.org), or just start apt-get (a nice utility which
automatically downloads the new packages and installs them), so there is
no need to bother with ncftp.

Tamas


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