[ale] GA Tech Install Fest

[Christopher Fowler]

On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 10:09 -0600, JK wrote:
> Christopher Fowler wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, Chris, do you believe that Fedora
> is a better distro choice for complete newbies than
> Ubuntu?  Personally, having tried them both, I would be
> far more likely to recommend Ubuntu to newbies (though
> personally I use Fedora and Slackware mostly).
> 

<commence flamewar>
Ubuntu is great for noobs.  Fedora is good for noobs who will be our
future in the Computer Science field.  

When I started out there was not much out there for noobs.  Things were
difficult and I feel it made me stronger.  There was no module support
and compiling a kernel was almost always a requirement.  Getting X to
work sometimes meant to use vim as your X configuration tool.  Gopher
was your friend.  

> -- JK
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