<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Just a note. Use apt4rpm to update your
system. It easy and you don't have to register your system. </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I am using it on my RH9.0 box and it
works great. I got the apt rpm by doing a search on rpmfind.net </font>
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<br><font size=2><tt>just a quick note to whoever-it-was asking for a distro<br>
recommendation...<br>
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i had to do a linux install at work for an old celeron box we have lying<br>
around, and so i first tried debian, the distro i'm used to working<br>
with. i grabbed an old o'reilly debian 2.1 book (i work at a used<br>
bookstore, so i could only really use what we had on end), which failed<br>
to recognize the ethernet card, and then got stuck in dselect dependency<br>
hell, probably because of some problem with the original install cd.<br>
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after a few minutes of fscking around, i gave up and tried an o'reilly<br>
redhat 8.0 disk, and wow - coming from debian, the red hat installer is<br>
pretty damn impressive. instantaneous Xwindows installer, ethernet card<br>
detected, easy resolution selection -- now i see why red hat has such a<br>
following... the only problem i had was figuring out how to get on to<br>
the redhat network -- apparently i needed to update up2date and install<br>
a new SSL key, and i still couldn't easily figure how to install new<br>
packages from RPM with the ease of apt-get, but i'm sure that's my<br>
redhat newbieism speaking, not red hat..<br>
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anyway, i'm sure this is old news to everyone here, but since i was the<br>
one promoting debian before i figured i'd let the world know the errors<br>
of my ways.. :)<br>
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best,<br>
nick<br>
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