[H-GEN] libranet

[Stephen Brine]

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>Never heard of it, but unless it has a lot of user-friendliness added on, any
>distribution based on debian probably isn't a good thing for a beginner 
>unless
>he has a background in a UNIX of some description.
>
>The 'standard' in package distribution appears to be RPM at the moment, so if
>your friend doesn't want to build from source I would suggest a distribution
>that uses RPM. Most of the documentation out there seems to be for Red Hat, so
>for a beginner that might be best.
>
>On the other hand, the bloated scripts in RH could be habit forming :)

Maybe Mandrake is the way to go. The latest distribution has the ease of an 
MS style OS to install and detect most everything you could want 
hardwarewise. Just a thought, it is very much prewritten scripts, you 
change things with utilities (that go and rewrite the scripts) Mandrake is 
based on Redhat, but different. Use this until happy with playing serious 
scripts then change or at least until confident with the concept of Linux.

         Best regards,
                         Steve B
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