[Tutor] Re: Linux versions

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

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On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 03:22:33PM +0200, Magnus Lyck=E5 wrote:
| At 09:58 2003-07-02 +0200, Yigal Duppen wrote:
| >But here is the catch -- not on all systems does 'python' point to the
| >latest version! For example, on my Debian system, 'python' points to
| >'python1.5'.

Old debian systems have 1.5.2 as the default python.  Newer ones
(running a current 'testing' or 'unstable') have either 2.2.2 or 2.2.3
as the default python.  All "current" debian systems have the option
of installing more than one python simultaneously.  (I have 2.1, 2.2
and 2.3 installed right now)

| Don't know much about Debian, but I do think that both Mandrake,
| RedHat and SuSE are easier to get started with than Debian if you
| are a newbie.

I agree.

| Debian suppsedly runs very well once it's installed,

It does.  (which is why I use it)

| but to get there takes a while.

This depends on several factors.  For someone wholly inexperienced
with unix then it certainly will take a while, particularly if you are
unfamiliar with your hardware and details needed to configure it.  As
your familiarity increases, the time to get a new system going will
vastly decrease.

As a first recommendation, try Knoppix.  It is entirely cd-based.  You
put the CD in the drive, boot, and there's the system.  It doesn't
affect your hard drive.  It is a good way to try out a linux system or
to use linux on a machine that you don't have permission/authority to
alter the OS on.  It just so happens that knoppix is based on debian,
so transitioning from one to the other is quite easy, but once you get
some familiarity with linux in general working with any other system
will be easier.

-D

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