Quick Linux Question
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redhat isn't bad, although the free/public version is now called fedora and is available at fedora.redhat.com
install is quite nice, comes with lots of stuff.
which distro you use is really a personal choice. some will shoot me for suggesting redhat, and will suggest suse, debian, yellowdog etc etc. get one installed and have a tinker.
If you know what your doing and want more customisation, take a look at Gentoo but this requires a reasonable knowledge of what you want and what you're doing. That said, it works fine on my laptop, desktop and a server
Hope that helps a little,
Karl
install is quite nice, comes with lots of stuff.
which distro you use is really a personal choice. some will shoot me for suggesting redhat, and will suggest suse, debian, yellowdog etc etc. get one installed and have a tinker.
If you know what your doing and want more customisation, take a look at Gentoo but this requires a reasonable knowledge of what you want and what you're doing. That said, it works fine on my laptop, desktop and a server
Hope that helps a little,
Karl
Depends what you after, Redhat is more of a 'soft' unix..
Does alot of the work for you, and keeps a nice friendly barrier between you and the REAL system.
Redhat is good for those who want compatability and ease over power and security.
I prefer FreeBSD, as its infinately more hands on, alot smaller footprint.. with alot less automation... whilst still being compatible and not a pig to use..
On the extremes you have solaris, and Open/NetBSD...
I like to rationalise it this way.
FreeBSD is like driving a manual, you get the full flavour of the ride, total control and a much better skillset, but its harder to learn, and you can sometimes stall it.
Redhat is like driving an Auto, you have to think about alot less, dont need to play with as many different options, but you not really 'driving it' just along for the ride.. You dont learn how to 'drive' as much as just get from a-b the easiest.
And, like any true analogy, if you learn to drive the manual, you can jump straight into an auto with minimal problems, but learn in the auto, and you will have 'fun' trying to drive a manual after..
They both LOOK the same, but feel and work totally differently.
Does alot of the work for you, and keeps a nice friendly barrier between you and the REAL system.
Redhat is good for those who want compatability and ease over power and security.
I prefer FreeBSD, as its infinately more hands on, alot smaller footprint.. with alot less automation... whilst still being compatible and not a pig to use..
On the extremes you have solaris, and Open/NetBSD...
I like to rationalise it this way.
FreeBSD is like driving a manual, you get the full flavour of the ride, total control and a much better skillset, but its harder to learn, and you can sometimes stall it.
Redhat is like driving an Auto, you have to think about alot less, dont need to play with as many different options, but you not really 'driving it' just along for the ride.. You dont learn how to 'drive' as much as just get from a-b the easiest.
And, like any true analogy, if you learn to drive the manual, you can jump straight into an auto with minimal problems, but learn in the auto, and you will have 'fun' trying to drive a manual after..
They both LOOK the same, but feel and work totally differently.
To carry the analogy a little bit further, the Windows operating system on the other hand, is like driving a car thats fly-by-wire with a heads up display. It tries to do absolutely everything for you even without you asking. The problem is that every other car on the road looks the same as yours, it weighs 5 tons, and although its great in a straight line it has a tendancy to crash in tight bends.
jam1et said:
To carry the analogy a little bit further, the Windows operating system on the other hand, is like driving a car thats fly-by-wire with a heads up display. It tries to do absolutely everything for you even without you asking. The problem is that every other car on the road looks the same as yours, it weighs 5 tons, and although its great in a straight line it has a tendancy to crash in tight bends.
But if you're a good enough driver you can keep up with nearly everything else.
agent006 said:
To carry the analogy a little bit further, the Windows operating system on the other hand, is like driving a car thats fly-by-wire with a heads up display. It tries to do absolutely everything for you even without you asking. The problem is that every other car on the road looks the same as yours, it weighs 5 tons, and although its great in a straight line it has a tendancy to crash in tight bends.
But if you're a good enough driver you can keep up with nearly everything else.
...and you can buy a lot of aftermarket parts without having to go to a specialist dealer...
ErnestM
ErnestM said:
...and you can buy a lot of aftermarket parts without having to go to a specialist dealer...
and buy and buy and buy and buy.
Spend, spend, spend, spend, spend.
I can perform customisation to mine, for free, and it'll slaughter the 5 tonner on the same hardware..... and if it breaks, coz its open source, lots of people get together and fix it quickly, instead of waiting for the manufacturer to get off their a*se to fix it when they feel like it..... same for any security issues....
TUS 373 said:Yes, IMHO this one's excellent to start with. (Well, I haven't used the others in their latest version
If I can chip in, is Suse Pro a good distro? I too have been thinking about some Linux tinkering, but have no experience with it at all. I would like a version that has an MS Office type suite in it and compatibility too. Any advice would be welcomed.
When you buy it in a book shop, you'll get handbooks with it, that explain the important stuff (not only for boffins), and are excellent for curing insomnia 
SuSE has openoffice with it, which is the open-source version of Sun's StarOffice, and works perfectly well with exchanging documents to MS Office users.
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