Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux needs less fragmentation Date: 6 Oct 2026 14:48:02 GMT Lines: 13 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net qHcGQjsfswDrtC0cLNlvrQb52ZLG7z8TNWoE3kq+e3onNDU7LX Cancel-Lock: sha1:W9PZc+CfMEXrRT38dPmng59pxT8= sha256:6tZD+Uxo03Ezq9RYitJwpCSo+9y8iViYPPs6FH+q4XM= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:93047 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.