Red Hat 9.0 Vs. Slackware 9.0

[natebo]

Hi guys,

I'm a newbie, and boy am I thrilled with red hat, so far. I initially was a red hat basher because I tend to root for the under dogs and stray from main stream things. (im sorry i'm forced to use winslows). But after buying slack and their manual, I had difficulty just figuring out where to start, and what to do. It seemed like nothing worked. I have to admit I was attracted by the name, but that faded fast after nights of cluelessness.

So I went to border books, to look for some info on red hat and came across, red hat linux 9.0 for dummies...and guess what it supplies you with red hat 9.0 to boot. All this for 29.99. I picked it up, read over it and had it installed that night. Red hat practically identified and had almost all my divers for my hardware, even my printer - windows doesn't even do that. I am very impressed with old red, it has renewed my confidence to once again try to stray from windows.

[DrZaius]

I agree, of all the distributions I've installed Red Hat is my favorite. Mandrake is a close second, but I prefer Red Hat's defaults use of the GNOME system and the install just seems a bit more polished.

[natebo]

I agree, the install was beautiful compared to slacks

[Dswissmiss]

well, there are many other underdog beginner distros that are very good. i gave the alpha version of ark linux a try and it was simpler than red-hat, it also uses apt-get and synaptic which is good...although being simple probably gives you less options and such, but check out their site arklinux.org

[natebo]

ark linux, ok i'll check it out.

I plan on trying a bunch of them out, i've got 120 gig to play with.

[Floppyman]

From personal experience I've found RH9 somewhat buggy actually. HTH

[Dswissmiss]

im addicted to downloading distros at this point . i never found something i really liked but i realized it was because i hated rpm's and could never get everything to work. or a certain distro would not work my my sound card or network card. now im looking at all debian based distros, try knoppix and mepis.org too, although theyre pretty much the same. just check out distrowatch.com and read about different ones...just dont get addicted

edid: forgot to mention that ark is still in a testing stage, but according to many reviews its already more stable than most distros out there, and mepis is a bit hard to install if you (like me) dont completely understand how to manually partition harddrives for linux (/home, /swap etc..)

[mairving]

RH to me is the slowest most bloated distro. It all depends upon what you want to do with it. If you want to have a pretty desktop, then RH or MDK is the way to go. If you want to run a server, Slack or FreeBSD is the ticket.

[natebo]

I thought red hat was the industry standard for servers and big corps.

[Floppyman]

Originally posted by mairving RH to me is the slowest most bloated distro. It all depends upon what you want to do with it. If you want to have a pretty desktop, then RH or MDK is the way to go. If you want to run a server, Slack or FreeBSD is the ticket.

Does Slack come with any GUI's by default, or do I have to download them if I want them (e.g. KDE)? TIA.

[natebo]

slack comes with kde, gnome, and about three others. when it comes to pretty installation menus slack has none. it not fat on looks at all. It's straight to the point. I had problems just because there is little hardware scanning, you have to tell it where everything is, Red hat is easier to learn on, will go to slack again after confidence is back up. lol.