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i would go then with either redhat or mandrake (most likely mandrake) because while redhat has gotten harder for people who knew it a year or 2 ago, it is getting easier for recent converts from windows. Mandrake however is the most like windows i have seen for a long time yet still fairly easy for everyone to use
What about SUSE! It comes with two thick manuals on how to do things in SUSE. (Professional version) If you dont find it in the manual, you can usually find the answer on their website. So I would say that is well documented and easy for new Nix people coming from Windows backgrounds. Bah, Redhat. SUSE rUL3s! :)
well, Suse personal is a little bit lacking in user guide and the pro version doesn't come as iso download. Well i think gentoo has good user guie :p compared to other distro...
Did you buy SUSE? Or just download it? What version? I dont have the personal version but I believe that you get only one instead of two of those thick books. (Still a good bit of documentation)Quote:
Originally posted here by Death_Knight
well, Suse personal is a little bit lacking in user guide and the pro version doesn't come as iso download. Well i think gentoo has good user guie :p compared to other distro...
If you are clearly looking for **** to read on your distro, you won´t ever fail with FreeBSD. There is an entire manual to read. (Which is ****ing huge.) Go to there site and have a look at the manual.
It really is a good Unix. I personally will be updating to freebsd, openbsd, gentoo, win xp, and something else when I get my net connection back.
Yes you counted correctly I have 5 computers in my room, that I use all around the same time. Well all but the Win Xp one. I only use that for web design and other BS.
Every *NIX OS has great ducumentation.
SUSE by far has the best as far as books that it comes with.
SUSE Personal doesn't come with a lot because it's meant to be a "Welcome to Linux" thing. It's meant for home users too. No one at this page is a lowly home user, so do yourself a favor, quit being so cheap and buy SUSE 9.1 Profesional. It has 2 huge books it comes with, and as every Linux has:
man man
Type that in a your terminal, if you need more documentation than that you're a ****ing pansy anyway.
;)
Open BSD also has some of the best documentation on Earth.
Free BSD....I'm not exactly on a friendly basis with the people who work for Free BSD, and I've had quite a few arguements with the dick faces on the mailing lists.
I've also been kicked off the Mandrake Security Mailing list for argueing with one of the dudes who mods it, and pretty much telling him to suck my big floppy Penguine. Not my fault they have no sence of humor. Blah, **** 'em, I think I've gotten into it with almost every company for Linux except SUSE, who love me, always respond to my emails, within a day, and don't get on my nerves when I make a joke.
I got kicked off another Mandrake Mailing list because someone mailed the whole list with the following:
unsubcrber
They wanted off the list, and even though directions are in the mail you get when you JOIN, and in every header of every mail sent there, they still do it.
I said "Gross stupidity".
Then I got jumped on by mods saying it was mean of me. I said too ****ing bad, and got kicked off. Heh, lol come to think of it, I use software where half the people making it hate me. Well, when I used Mandrake anyway. I've gotten into it with RedHat people a few times, and Lord knows how I feel about Gentoo.
Like when they were dicussing where to hold a Gentoo meeting and I said "How about going to Hell?" ;)
LOL! Even if I was a gentoo freak, I would laugh at that. They must really have no sense of humor.Quote:
Like when they were dicussing where to hold a Gentoo meeting and I said "How about going to Hell?
well, suse professional only available through ftp install? so i need to transfer all the contents under that directory to my local hard disk :confused:
Gentoo has some very good installation documentation as it happens - yes it takes a while to complete the install but the documentation tells you exactly what to do every step of the way. As for other documentation:Quote:
Originally posted here by gore
Like when they were dicussing where to hold a Gentoo meeting and I said "How about going to Hell?" ;)
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml
should be more than enough to keep people going for a while. The forums also are a good source of "unofficial" documentation.
In terms of printed documentation, SUSE has always surprised me by the amount of stuff they pack into their boxed sets, particularly the professional ones.