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Re: Update: Jerusalem meeting



>>>>>>>> On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Daniel wrote:

 Daniel> I think that the best thing should be such a distribution or
 Daniel> another. If you can bring any kind of distribution, do it! In
 Daniel> the meeting, we can discuss about a known subject that is:
 Daniel> WHICH LINUX DISTRIBUTION IS THE BEST?
 Daniel>
 Daniel> I don't think the answer is simple and I think that the
 Daniel> answer depends on the kind of user. I Unix user (not a system
 Daniel> admin) would probably like a Linux distribution that you can
 Daniel> install easyly.
 Daniel>
 Daniel> Maybe we should make another meeting about this specific
 Daniel> subject...

I didn't try to say anything about being best. I just pointed out
that there is Debian and it's worth looking into. Thats all.

 Daniel> Boris D. Beletsky wrote:
 Daniel>
 Daniel> > >>>>>>>> On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Eli wrote:
 Daniel> >
 Daniel> >  Eli> Will there be anybody with the new (and hot) RedHat
 Daniel> >  Eli> 5.0? I can witness for myself that I'll buy it. I
 Daniel> >  Eli> believe that many others will want to buy it, or at
 Daniel> >  Eli> least install it without the commercial parts.
 Daniel> >  Eli>
 Daniel> >  Eli> There are many packages for UNIX/Linux that I
 Daniel> >  Eli> downloaded in the last month from the net; I was
 Daniel> >  Eli> surprised to find *all* of them bundled in the
 Daniel> >  Eli> standard version of RedHat 5.0!
 Daniel> >  Eli>
 Daniel> >  Eli> I worked with more than 30 flavors of UNIX; This one
 Daniel> >  Eli> looks the best I ever saw! (Of course, I didn't have
 Daniel> >  Eli> the chance to install it and use it, so my impression
 Daniel> >  Eli> is only according to the
 Daniel> >
 Daniel> >  Eli> contents and advertised features of the new version).
 Daniel> >
 Daniel> > Yes, probably I will have a RedHat 5.0 CDROM and I will be
 Daniel> > there.
 Daniel> >
 Daniel> > I don't want to start a flame war, just recommend to have
 Daniel> > a look at Debian 2.0. It will be out (so help us god)
 Daniel> > somewhere in the near future (hope, this month). It will be
 Daniel> > also libc6 based Linux distribution, and it contains a lot
 Daniel> > packages the RedHat does.

thks,
borik
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