Time for a new Linux

[Walter Dnes]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 12:46:08AM -0500, Teddy Mills wrote
> So if RH is exiting, and Fedora is too new, what Linux should I look for,
> that is...
> 
> similar to RH keeps a good balance. (that is, not too behind the
> times or ahead of the times) keeps current

  Debian is actually different than the stereotypes.  If you want only
old stuff, download ISO 1 and ISO 2 and install from them.  If you want
ReiserFS and USB support and devfs, download ISO 5 as well as 1 and 2.
Boot from ISO 5, the extras get installed, and then 1 and 2 add the
standard basics.  This is all on the "stable" branch.  You can mix in
items from "testing" (beta?) and "unstable" (alpha?).

  I made the jump away from Redhat a couple of months ago.  Redhat
hadn't yet announced Fedora replacing standard Redhat Linux, but I had
gotten sick and tired of version-du-jour with a Windows-like upgrade
treadmill.  I'm a linux hobbyist, but I also want to spend more of my
time actually *USING* the OS versus *UPGRADING* it.

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