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I buy my RedHat from Linux Systems Labs (www.lsl.com), it's much cheaper (US
$0.00+Shipping [yes $0]), if you don't want all the paper documentation and the
support.

I've only got 6.0 so far, and it's definitely come a long way in terms of hardware
support.

Paul Bennett wrote:

> Charles writes:
> >>>>>>
> Ed Heil wrote:
> >
> > Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > >
> > > I'd advise you to stay clear of Suse - it tries to be clever, instead of
> > > defering to the sysadmin. When the next Slackware comes out, I'll be
> > > returning to it.
> >
> > I cut my teeth on Slackware myself.  I'm kind of back out of the
> > Linux thing after the old weird PC I bought (with no documentation)
> > utterly failed to play nice with Linux, but if I got back into it,
> > it'd be fun to go to Slackware again.  So is the newer Slackware good
> > and usable?
>
> I'm sure it is, but RedHat installs in 7 minutes (I walk away
> while it grinds transferring stuff from cdrom to disk).
> I just bought the very latest, version 6.1 (?) and am about
> to upgrade from 5.2 ... KDE, Netscape, Star Office included, $19.95.
> <<<<<<
>
> KDE is still in 6.x?  I (mis)read somewhere that it had gone completely Gnome.
> I only have a shady understanding of these things anyway, so I guess that's why
> I failed to comprehend.
>
> Well, if HatRed can do "all this, and more", I think I'll have to follow the
> crowd and go get it.  My local Waterstones is selling it for UKP 49.95, iirc, so
> I'll have to go straight to the website.  Unf, Internet Exploiter sh*ts itself
> quite nastily every time I try to go there.  Conspiracy theories, anyone?
>
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