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Old 07-30-2002
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Originally posted by Marc Rochkind
FreeBSD and Solaris are substantially more challenging for newcomers than is Linux. And, Mandrake and SuSE Linux are easier to deal with than Red Hat or any of the others I've looked at.
Maybe for installation but I will take the FreeBSD ports tree over RPM any day of the week. The ports tree is even simple for novices once they learn how to use it (and it isn't that difficult to learn).

I will agree about installation, though. The SuSE 7.x installation was very simple and very Windows like.