Re: Was my decission to buy RH 6.0 Official a wise one?

[Trent <trent crystalwind com>]

Hi Luis,

Sorry, mate, I've got to disagree with your NT statement. NT is only easy until something goes 
wrong. Have fun with the registry ;-)

RH requires you to learn the system, just the way old DOS types once had to learn all of the arcane 
edlin and batch commands, and the QEMM or BlueMax switches to become DOS wizards. Quite a 
bit of the info you see in the unleashed book is on the cd in the documentation, just in a different 
format and not collated. It's simply a long chore to get it all out and read it. I have the unleased 
book, as well. It's great. But I also use the how-to docs and the RH user guide. And a dozen online 
resources.

Any *NIX has a steep learning curve. You can't escape it. Anyone looking for _USER_ power and 
superior ease of use should pick up an iMac, not Linux. WIN9x and NT are in a separate class. They 
have power in some areas, but lack true "drivers seat" power. You can only easily do what Bill 
wants you to do. Anything more requires tinkering with the unknown. Want to see an NT cry? Ask 
him about his uptime ;-) Admin'ing an NT network is a miserable job....

If you want to know what's going on and make a system sing, Linux is the only way to go. NT will 
never have that because MS will never, never provide enough documentation on the registry and 
even if they did, their GUI admin tools don't give admins access to everything.

Cheers,

Trent The Thief


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Original message from: "Luis Perez" <redhat-install-list redhat com>
>I am with you my friend, I am kind of tired of M$ and purchased RedHat 6.0
>the "official" version.
>I don't know what they mean by "official" though.
>I was greatly disappointed at the manuals.
>I would have been better off purchasing a $39.99 book with a Linux CD in it
>and I would have learned a lot more !!
>And that is what I had to do, I went to Barnes & noble and Purchased Linux
>unleashed, now, I am kind of learning a bit, but you are right, I know now
>why M$ became so popular, Anybody can install NT and administer it, not so
>with Linux, despise all the publicity about Linux improving GUI and all
>that, is still far behind NT as far as friendliness goes.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Aleksandar Katanovic <akatanov bigfoot com>
>To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
>Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 10:03 AM
>Subject: Was my decission to buy RH 6.0 Official a wise one?
>
>
>>
>> Was my decision to buy Official Red Hat Linux 6.0 a wise one?
>>
>> In past few days I was in a big dilemma between Official Red Hat Linux 6.0
>> (see http://www.redhat.com/commerce/) and The Linux-Mandrake 6.0 Power
>Pack
>> Edition (see http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fpowerpack.php3).
>>
>> At last I decided to order Red Hat because it contains two manuals, one
>> with 450 pages and the second one with 300 pages. I wanted to order first
>> Mandrake because it was both cheaper and it has five CD disks with many
>> programs. I still do not know whether my choice was correct.
>>
>> I am newbie in the world of Linux. I am tired of Microsoft monopoly and I
>> want rather to support Linux. However, it seems that Linux is for clever
>> people. Nevertheless, I am stubborn and wish to try Linux, because I am
>> indeed tired of everything called "Microsoft."
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alex
>>
>>
>>
>>
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