Comment Faster for who? (Score 1) 887
"I chose to manually partition the disk using fdisk. First, I deleted the partition I had originally created for Linux. Then I created a 256-megabyte swap partition and gave the rest of the drive to Red Hat, choosing the ext3 journaling filesystem.
"Red Hat asked a few more questions about the system than the Windows installation did, but the default selections were always satisfactory. I chose to use the GRUB boot manager, to place it on the MBR, and for the Linux to be the default. Next, I accepted DHCP as my network settings, medium security, and picked my time zone."
90% of computer users don't know an ext3 journaling system from a GRUB boot manager. RedHat might be faster to install, If you have experience with Linux, but it certainly isn't easier for Joe Homepage.
"Red Hat asked a few more questions about the system than the Windows installation did, but the default selections were always satisfactory. I chose to use the GRUB boot manager, to place it on the MBR, and for the Linux to be the default. Next, I accepted DHCP as my network settings, medium security, and picked my time zone."
90% of computer users don't know an ext3 journaling system from a GRUB boot manager. RedHat might be faster to install, If you have experience with Linux, but it certainly isn't easier for Joe Homepage.
