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No official Win4Lin support for Debian

Should I try it anyway or get Red Hat?

         

Trisha

4:35 pm on Mar 31, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I decided to get a laptop with linux preinstalled. The choices they give are Red Hat or Debian. I was leaning toward Debian, but I contacted the NeTraverse people and they said they don't currently offer package or installation support for Debian. They gave me some links to pages with information about installing it on debian though. Has anyone here installed it on debian? I wonder if it will be difficult for me to do, or if it will run with some limitations with debian.

It might be best for me to just go with Red Hat. I know I can still change distros later, but I would then have to make sure I have all the correct drivers for the modem, etc.

Red Hat might be easier for someone new to linux though.

I know there have already been discussions about debian/red hat, etc. I'm just still kind of apprehensive about changing over to linux. I know I want to do it, I'm just not good about making decisions quickly.