RE: Linux Recommendations

["Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx>]

Point A:
Linux Distributions are free to pass on: when you buy RedHat, or Debian
or
SuSe, you buy the box, CD, Manual, and usually some tech support for 30
days
or something. You don't acually pay for O/S (or at least, not more than
a
token amount)

the key difference is in what comes next: with a Micro$oft product, you
buy
it, install it on a single PC, anything else is "piracy". With
your shiny
new RedHat CD, you can install an office of 100 PC systems, which is
not
only legal, but encouraged.

also, if you want to give it to your mate, so he can install his office
too,
thats again fine with the licence. The only real restriction is that
you
have o pass on the source CD too, not just the binaries one, so your
mate
could (if he was so inclined) alter and recompile any of the code to
suit
his own needs a little better..

Point B:
Depends on your use. I blow the trumpet for SME Server (www.e-smith.org)
as
a great small network server. It's RedHAt 7.1 with fancy management
built
in, so should be fairly easy to use for most things :)

Point C:
Pass. I rarely add new toys to Linux builds, as I tend to use them as
stable
servers rather than main PCs.

Ian.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Butler [mailto:roaming@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 21 July 2002 08:47
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Linux Recommendations


Much as it pains me to do so, it seems I will have to succumb to the
darkness and install *nix on a PC on my network.
Anyone recommend a particular distribution that is
a) Free
b) easy to configure
c) Most likely to work with any linux packages I download?

I know some of you use redhat and I thought this was free, but it seems
not to be now :(

What about Debain - worth a look?


Cheers,


Tony

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