Well, I've tried out Fedora, and it was very much like RedHat 9, just a bit more only desktopy, as Xires pointed out on Unerror IRC use of shell in RedHat Linux and Fedora is getting less and less with every release. As for Gentoo and Slackware, they are very good linux distro's, good for learning, and using! Same with SuSE Linux, I like it alot.

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