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Which one is better for using at home? RH9 is more user-friendly, but working with FreeBSD is more intersting for me...
P.S.: I'm newbie in *nix systems...

Actually, for a system at home, I would recommend either debian or ubuntu.

yes, i would also suggest ubuntu...

what do you wanna use it for? Because for a little surf/email/wordprocessing almost any distro would be enough.

Start off with Slackware. For the first few days you'll stare into the black abyss of a command-prompt and think "Is it really worth it?" After you catch on, you will be most pleased with it and be able to catch onto any other *nix distro very quickly ...

I use to use red hat linux 9.0 for home user stuff.
after switching to ubuntu, i find it a lot more user friends and feasible to do other stuff like entertainment in linux.
for instance, u probalby have to install a bunch of stuff in red hat linux, although i know mplayer can do the job.
but instead in ubuntu, all u really need to do is use apt-get to download the right files. im not talking about multiple lines of stuff. but just one line and bam u acn watch avi files now

Erm, if you were to use a Red Hat product then move as far away from RH9 as you can, some of you know I passionately hate Fedora as an OS but compared to RH9 its brilliant...I had so bloody many problems with RH9 it wasn't funny >_>

Anyway, stick with ubuntu, brilliant. Upgrade to the devel version (breezy) although some things are a little buggy I found that an absolute shitload of the hoary and warty bugs have been fixed (including the stupid sound problem I had with hoary).

Tim wrote:Erm, if you were to use a Red Hat product then move as far away from RH9 as you can, some of you know I passionately hate Fedora as an OS but compared to RH9 its brilliant...I had so bloody many problems with RH9 it wasn't funny >_>

Anyway, stick with ubuntu, brilliant. Upgrade to the devel version (breezy) although some things are a little buggy I found that an absolute shitload of the hoary and warty bugs have been fixed (including the stupid sound problem I had with hoary).

haha same here .. Redhat and Oracle 9i R2 makes me search high and low for the rpms as well as editing Oracle stuffs because of the native thread issues...
Anyway RH I don;t know if its me only but I find that from version 7 onwards, its pretty resource intensive compared to the older versions.

But then I'm more of a nix user than nux user
Sun and AIX mainly

For home i think to me will be better Slackware but this is only IMHO :-)

thebeast wrote:For home i think to me will be better Slackware but this is only IMHO

Slackware a number of my friends are using it but I haven't really tried this flavour of the linux distro yet...
Solaris there's the intel version but doesn;t really feel the same like running on an actual sun box... Actually Ive been looking for an affordable 2nd hand ultra 10 if possible for home use...
Meanwhile I'm wiatting for my friend to pass me his spare ubuntu cds

The new Red Hat OS' (fedora and rhel) are not as resource intensive as some of the older ones but I still find them just as err...well I'm not sure how to put it but I don't like them as much as bsd or debian based OS'.

Tim wrote:The new Red Hat OS' (fedora and rhel) are not as resource intensive as some of the older ones but I still find them just as err...well I'm not sure how to put it but I don't like them as much as bsd or debian based OS'.

LOL .. not sure but maybe compartively because I've started on Linux with RedHat 6 thus maybe I tend to compare with that version... Anyway .. Im using more of unix at work which could be the reason why I tend to suay towards unix more .. Just matter of preferences no biggie deal
Other than that for compatibility sake as in the area I'm in most users are still on Winbloze, I'm still on Uncle Bill Gates mercy...

Cheerios

Well, thank you for advice, ubuntu is almost downloaded... Friday night will be awesome, I think (I'd install it today, but tomorrow is going to be rather hard day at school... )

i have tried RH , slackware , debian , mandrake , Freebsd and a few minimalist distro

and i find that each distro has it's own significance Freebsd is very much customizable and feels more towards unix system rather then linux even the structure within

however if ur looking for Xwin usage debian seems stable for console yes go for slackware they 0wns Freebsd too if ur having thoughts of a routing server or firewall freebsd can be installed in a small sized hard drive without Xwins

hmm thats from purely my point of view, however others may think likewise but it's my thoughts which some how might be beneficial to your decision on a variant to be installed.

regards
yongda

As other persons told u if u r going to use the OS for just websurfing/emai/typing.... u can install any distribution.
But in case u want to use it in home as a server for u home or small office i think that Redhat contains services that are designed for this issue i already installed Susse linux (it is good for home 2) and Redhat but i prefer susse now