Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux needs less fragmentation Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2026 11:12:57 +0200 Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <6abfe3d3$0$26$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <6abfe73a$0$27$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <119phti$2j9hl$1@dont-email.me> <6ac0ee93$0$25$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <119t7c7$3pgbq$1@dont-email.me> <119uf8l$9egg$1@dont-email.me> <119vmt7$mtek$12@dont-email.me> <20261006081346.764148ec@peinard.chezmoi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net xVNlCsO396gykvwx7BoE7A91LbG/Ujn4JMtYKKaBWmI+pfme2b Cancel-Lock: sha1:rxj/WxukyYmewW4ohlY9bbYqwtY= sha256:FiYmy4yX+7kdH5P96YoFc9NKBAkvY8Z/bjEwkcaZavQ= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <20261006081346.764148ec@peinard.chezmoi> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:93008 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🇪🇺.