another newbie question

[Dana]

My experiences,  FWIW

Some years ago - Redhat 5.2 - hard to install, couldn't
get much useful work out of it.
Last year - Mandrake 7.1 - Easy to install but unless 
you really know what you are doing, hard to customize.
This year - freeBSD4.1 - Easy to install, easy to customize.
I downloaded the minimal download and am adding
packages one at a time to get exactly what I want.
I find BSD's port system to be much easier than Linux's
RPMs. YMMV.

So if you want to get to speed fast and don't really care
about the internals, I would say go with Mandrake.
If you are interested in getting into the whys and 
wherefores then you might want to give freeBSD a look.

I hope it isn't too heretical to mention BSD in a Linux group.:)

Dana
----- Original Message ----- 
From: will goodman <hippie91 at yahoo.com>
To: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 4:54 PM
Subject: another newbie question

> 
> hey, i'm new to this list, i'm just curious about
> which version of redhat is a good one to start out on.
>  i'd assume that 7.0 would be best, but i've heard
> that it's really buggy and i should hold off.  also,
> i'm wondering if anyone knows of video editing
> programs for linus (since it would be pretty stupid to
> switch to linux if i can't edit video).  and does
> anyone know if promise ide raid cards have any driver
> support.
> 
> thanks,
> will
> 
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