play around with demolinux or knoppix first, as they are bootable cd distros.
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no distro is secure by default give debian to an idiot and it will be just as open as a pc running 50 outdated deamons...
and honnestly i dont know why people seem to think the install for debian is hard... actually its pretty damn easy...
Right, I told this, the admin have to be an experient one.Quote:
no distro is secure by default give debian to an idiot and it will be just as open as a pc running 50 outdated deamons...
The installation it's not 'damn easy' for new people.Quote:
and honnestly i dont know why people seem to think the install for debian is hard... actually its pretty damn easy...
But after installing, all it's easy, the package manager is one of the best there is.
Difficulty of Installing any OS depends on the experience, efficiency, knowledge of the guy trying and features to install and the OS itself.
When the installation process ask you so many questions, and you don't know the answer or even don't understand the question, in that case installing Win2000 server is difficult. And installing RH 8.0 is pretty easy.
I installed
Red Hat 5.2, 6.0, 7.1, 8.0
Slackware 3.6, 4.0, 7.0, 8.0
Mandrake 6.2, 9.0
Windows 3.11, 95, 98, 2000, XP
Windows NT 3.0, 4.0, 5.0
From all those experiences, I found installing and working with Slackware is difficult.
Here working with Slackware is because of my job, and I'm with it since 1999. You have to configure it, you have to make it work.
In case of Red Hat, I used it for proxy and web server only. It's my first Linux installation. You know it was tough, I tried thrice at my first night in 1996. and last time I forgot root password. I had to install again. I guess it was 5.2.
Now I'm using Red Hat 8.0 as my workstation. Though I found Mandrake easy with lots of features and easy configuration.
So, it's better to listen first before making any comment.
It seems that there is a linux fever here, and it seems that it's affecting me also, I'm thinking of installing linux, and give it a try...
Right, but in this thread I guess the guy that asked do not know a lot about linux, because this, he asked a simple question.Quote:
Difficulty of Installing any OS depends on the experience, efficiency, knowledge of the guy trying and features to install and the OS itself.
Right, always rh and mdk were both easy to install.Quote:
When the installation process ask you so many questions, and you don't know the answer or even don't understand the question, in that case installing Win2000 server is difficult. And installing RH 8.0 is pretty easy.
About what you installed, I installed 3X. Not just linux distro's, I work with AIX and CiSCO, nice OS :)
Some people think and some not, I think it's easy to install, not as mdk or rh, but still easy.Quote:
From all those experiences, I found installing and working with Slackware is difficult.
Damn right, to get slack running well, you'll need to configure every thing, every.Quote:
Here working with Slackware is because of my job, and I'm with it since 1999. You have to configure it, you have to make it work.
Hmm.. so, you worked with Slackware in details too. Happy that you got the point.