Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 07, 2003 11:20 AM
This person probably works for either Microsoft (most likely -- judging by the "divide and conquer" tone) or a competing distribution. If you like the article, I would advise following a similar course. In fact, there are some excellent desktop-oriented distributions that you can download for free. The easiest to use would likely be Lycoris, Red Hat, and Mandrake. The latter two include GNOME as well as KDE. In addition, they tend to include both server and desktop packages, while Lycoris is KDE-only, more desktop oriented, and is thinner on applications. But it probably installs faster! Or, go with something completely off-the-wall like ELX (but don't expect the level of support to be as deep).
You may find out more about various distributions at: http://www.distrowatch.com/
Then download them from: http://www.linuxiso.org/
Then, leave the polemics to the professors, their students, Microsoft employees, and the underemployed while you make your exciting initial Linux discoveries. If you find one you like, purchase an "official" copy, when you have a chance. It's really pretty easy (usually) and can be a lot of fun.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 07, 2003 11:20 AMYou may find out more about various distributions at:
http://www.distrowatch.com/
Then download them from:
http://www.linuxiso.org/
Then, leave the polemics to the professors, their students, Microsoft employees, and the underemployed while you make your exciting initial Linux discoveries. If you find one you like, purchase an "official" copy, when you have a chance. It's really pretty easy (usually) and can be a lot of fun.
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