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Re: Linux needs less fragmentation

From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Linux needs less fragmentation
Date 2026-10-06 14:48 +0000
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On Tue, 6 Oct 2026 11:12:57 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:

> 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 have 'Red Hat Linux Unleashed' from 1998 that had a CD for RHL 5.2. 
Counting the index it's over 1000 pages. It covers installation, building 
kernels, shell programming, gawk, setting up SMTP, and a little bit of C/
C++ and Python.

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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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