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Re: Linux needs less fragmentation

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From "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject Re: Linux needs less fragmentation
Date Tue, 6 Oct 2026 11:12:57 +0200
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On 2026-10-06 08:13, Philippe wrote:
> Le lun. 05 oct. 2026 21:49:20, Carlos E. R. a écrit:
> 
>> On 2026-10-05 21:36, rbowman wrote:
>>> On Mon, 5 Oct 2026 09:25:11 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Ubuntu first, then Mint later recognised that need and built distros
>>>> around it
>>>
>>> I would argue Mandrake was the first user friendly distro. Ubuntu made
>>> their nut shipping free CDs to anyone who asked. Meanwhile Mandrake had
>>> stepped into it with copyright issues and became Mandriva. I tried to get
>>> openMandriva up in a VM with not success.
>>>
>>> Mandrake came in a nice boxed set but unbelievably you had to buy it
>>> rather than getting free gibs.
>>
>> I would argue that SuSE was the first user friendly distro, according to
>> a magazine I read in summer 1998. You could buy it with nice paper books
>> included. And the books were translated to Spanish.
>   
> I bought RedHat Linux 4 from a local bookshop in 1997. It comes with a
> printed manual, but I don't remember if it was translated.
> 
> It was "complete newbie" friendly.

The first distro I installed was Redhat of a magazine, I think. I could 
not make head or tails of it. No books, no help. Then I read a magazine 
comparison which said that SuSE was the easiest of all, and next week or 
so, a magazine appeared with a two CD envelope of SuSE 5.3. No books, 
but the article pointed to SuSEhelp (a script that offered help), and to 
YaST (yast1), a program that permitted to do admin tasks easily.

I was happy and started to learn.

-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.
        ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺.

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Linux needs less fragmentation Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-10-04 14:08 -0700
  Re: Linux needs less fragmentation Michael Logies <logies@t-online.de> - 2026-10-04 23:33 +0200
    Re: Linux needs less fragmentation The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-05 09:20 +0100
  Re: Linux needs less fragmentation Leroy H <lh@somewhere.net> - 2026-10-04 21:44 +0000
  Re: Linux needs less fragmentation rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-10-05 01:53 +0000
    Re: Linux needs less fragmentation c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-10-05 03:14 -0400
      Re: Linux needs less fragmentation The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-05 09:28 +0100
        Re: Linux needs less fragmentation "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-05 19:20 +0200
          Re: Linux needs less fragmentation The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-05 19:43 +0100
            Re: Linux needs less fragmentation Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-10-08 15:25 +0100
              Re: Linux needs less fragmentation The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-08 15:29 +0100
              Re: Linux offers choice, BSD offers fragmentation Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-10-08 20:59 +0000
              Re: Linux needs less fragmentation c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-10-09 02:42 -0400
              Re: Linux needs less fragmentation "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-09 20:47 +0200
                Re: Linux offers choice, BSD offers fragmentation Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-10-09 21:20 +0000
                Re: Linux offers choice, BSD offers fragmentation "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-09 23:27 +0200
                Re: Linux offers choice, BSD offers fragmentation c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-10-10 04:01 -0400
                Re: Linux offers choice, BSD offers fragmentation c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-10-11 04:31 -0400
        Re: Linux needs less fragmentation Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-10-05 18:57 +0000
          Re: Linux needs less fragmentation The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-05 20:08 +0100
            Re: Linux needs less fragmentation Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2026-10-05 20:18 +0000
              Re: Linux needs less fragmentation Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-06 08:34 +0100
                Re: Linux needs less fragmentation The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-06 11:17 +0100
                Re: Linux needs less fragmentation c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-10-06 23:59 -0400
                Re: Linux needs less fragmentation rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-10-06 14:39 +0000
                Re: Linux needs less fragmentation Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2026-10-06 13:50 -0400
    Re: Linux needs less fragmentation The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-05 09:25 +0100
      Re: Linux needs less fragmentation rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-10-05 19:36 +0000
        Re: Linux needs less fragmentation "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-05 21:49 +0200
          Re: Linux needs less fragmentation rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-10-06 02:35 +0000
          Re: Linux needs less fragmentation Philippe <p.naudin+nntp@free.fr> - 2026-10-06 08:13 +0200
            Re: Linux needs less fragmentation "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-10-06 11:12 +0200
              Re: Linux needs less fragmentation rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-10-06 14:48 +0000
  Re: Linux needs less fragmentation The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-10-05 09:19 +0100

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