Like a lot of Linux users, I'm just interested in checking out the other distros. On the other hand, the distros don't mean a whole lot--right now my machine is probably more up-to-date then Redhat 6.0 is =)
Also, I'm the local source of Linux propoganda at work. Hence, I'd like to see how the other distros hold up to Redhat in terms of producing a usable system quickly, and completely. I'm getting closer every day to having production linux machines in use!
My last (and only, period) experience with LSL was rather disapointing. I picked up a 3-CD set of RH 5.2 (the binary distro, all the contribs, and their 'Catalyst', what they advertised as demo and trial versions of commercial software).
While the binary distro CD was fine, the other two were next to worthless. The contribs CD obviously had not been reviewed at all. Both KDE and Gnome had mixed RPMS for different versions--making them useless. The 'Catalyst' had a very small handful of trial versions, but was almost entirely HTML files with broken links, which seemed to have just been saved off different vendors web sites.
Needless to say, I'll not be throwing away any more money with LSL. Next paycheck, I'm trying out Cheapbytes (their mondo pack looks good =)
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Like a lot of Linux users, I'm just interested in checking out the other distros. On the other hand, the distros don't mean a whole lot--right now my machine is probably more up-to-date then Redhat 6.0 is =)
Also, I'm the local source of Linux propoganda at work. Hence, I'd like to see how the other distros hold up to Redhat in terms of producing a usable system quickly, and completely. I'm getting closer every day to having production linux machines in use!
My last (and only, period) experience with LSL was rather disapointing. I picked up a 3-CD set of RH 5.2 (the binary distro, all the contribs, and their 'Catalyst', what they advertised as demo and trial versions of commercial software).
While the binary distro CD was fine, the other two were next to worthless. The contribs CD obviously had not been reviewed at all. Both KDE and Gnome had mixed RPMS for different versions--making them useless. The 'Catalyst' had a very small handful of trial versions, but was almost entirely HTML files with broken links, which seemed to have just been saved off different vendors web sites.
Needless to say, I'll not be throwing away any more money with LSL. Next paycheck, I'm trying out Cheapbytes (their mondo pack looks good =)
Vrallis