[wplug] Which distribution to start with?

[Ben Beige]

Mandrake is a friendly distro.


At 05:10 PM 4/16/2004 -0700, you wrote:

>Hello WPLUG
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>About a year ago, I did my first experiment with Red Hat 8.  That was fun, 
>but my effort was ultimately overcome by events and abandoned.  Now I'm 
>interested in building a dedicated Linux box and restarting my Linux 
>education.  I'm a EE from the days when dinosaurs roamed the Carnegie Tech 
>campus, code was written in Algol60, and a CDC 6600 ruled the top floor of 
>the computer center.  During my hiatus from Linux, Red Hat seems to have 
>transformed itself into an enterprise-focused creature, so I'm not sure I 
>want to stay with their software. Would anyone be willing to share some 
>advise on which Linux distributions I should consider?
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>If it makes any difference, my focus is writing sharable software for 
>modeling and simulation of electronics and electromagnetics in C, C++ and Java.
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>Thanks.  Ted.
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Ben Beige
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