Subj : Which Linux     Options?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Mike Rappe
Date : Fri Jul 30 2004 04:10 pm

Sorry if this has been ask many times before. I have had Red Hat 7.1 on an
old PC. I bought The RH 7.1 Pro
in a store several years ago. Later I bought the book: Red Hat Linux 8 Bible
which came with 3 CDs which had a whole
implementation of RH as far as I could see (without the source and Docs). I
have not been able to use it much in the last 1.5 yrs
due to work and school but I was looking to maybe upgrade to a newer version
and spend some time with it. I went to install the
RH 8 CDs on another machine and found that my CDs were messed up. Somehow
they were scratched and I cannot install from them.
When I went to the store now they only sell the desktop version and I want
to play with the sever aspects of the machine also since I have
other PCs for for school and work (I have to use Windows 2000 or XP for
those) desktop use. Red Hat seems to no longer sell a regular
version and and when I look at there web site it looks like anything that I
would be interested in is very expensive so I think that I will have
to choose one of the other sources. The store sells the SUSIE Linux and I
haven't seen Mandrake in there for a while. I know that
everyone has different opinnions so I would like to ask for some options and
why you like one option over the others. I want to use an all
around system for development of applications and to edxperinent with. I
have worked in IT for 28 yrs so I am not a newbie but am not an OS guru
either. I am more of an application developer.
Thank You for any help.

Mike Rappe
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