Don't know whether it is a topic for this list but then.. The only answer to your answer will lie in your own experimentations. The best path is to try several distro and pick up the one your feeling more comfortable with. Whether you pick Debian, Mandrake, Suse or Fedora they all will do what you want once you get used to it. Whatever your choice is, none will do what you want "out-of-the-box" the way you want it to. Thay all have pros & cons, as I said it's just a matter of choice. If you are used to RH8, you should be able to get RH9 or FC1 to work the same way, even at the price of some tweaks. If you were running RH8 happilly, there is no reason why an upgrade to FC1 would not do the trick. If you need some help, we are here to help ;-) T. -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of WA9ALS - John Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 3:28 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Newbie which distro ques Please reply privately to this newbie question: Why are you settling on Fedora versus, eg, Debian? It seems like they have similar goals, ie public cocmmunity etc. I had a good thing going with RH8, but I am having more trouble than expected getting to the same functionality with Fedora. I'm trying to decide whether to keep persisting and learning Fedora, or whether I might better switch to learning Debian. I understand the Debian way might have a steeper learning curve, but it seems it is very reliable and easy to use once you get the hang of doing it their way. What are the advantages of Fedora over Debian at this point for the "hobbyist" - email, websites, etc, eg not a "big business" user - RH wants them to use RHE anyway. Tnx - John -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
