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  From: Andrew Harwood <aaharwood@bigpond.com>
  To  : Ryan Verner [festy] <vernerr@dove.net.au>
        <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:41:45 +1030

Re: Comparison APC LinuxPocketGuide and PCWORLD's LinuxPocketBook

on 12/2/01 5:33 PM, Ryan Verner [festy] at vernerr@dove.net.au wrote:

> I've used the APC one since its first revision (its in its third form now..

Not quite, it's four actually :) The second edition came in two editions, if
that's not to confusing. It first came with Red Hat 6.0 & Caldera OpenLinux
2.2 Non-royalty edition. A later printing came with Red hat 6.1 and
OpenLinux 2.3.  How can I be sure? I've got both, plus the original and
version 3.

> the first one had redhat 5.2) and I can say nothing but praise for it :)

And I agree with Ryan , apart from RH 6.0 I've never had a problem.

> I have to say I dont like RedHat anymore.. since version 6 its gone downhill
> imo..

Hmmm, well they are aiming at the newby desktop market more and more.
(flames to /dev/null)

One of these days I'm hoping to try some different distributions.

> 
> Mandrake although is a pretty nice distro.. its probably the most "polished"
> and easy to install Linux I've seen.  For showing and impressing newbies,
> mandrake would probably be the bet ;)

And RedHat are trying to catch up ;)

> 
> Debian rocks though.. I'm in love with apt-get :)  And stuff like dns etc..
> set up by default, and the amount of security there by default.

Sounds interesting. I'll have to investigate, and if it's good buy a machine
for it.

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