Posted: 1/24/2005 8:30:28 PM EDT
| Ok, I'm thinking of using Linux again. I know my way around it pretty well. I'd call myself an intermediate user. What distro do you guys recommend. I've used Red Hat and Fedora Project in the past. I could go back to Fedora, or are there others you recommend? I'll be running a web, FTP, ssh, and Samba server on it. Thanks! |
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My brother is in the higher powers to be of Linux - I'm sure he can answer any of your questions. Link |
Actually, funny you say that. I posted that RIGHT as I was waking up. Sorry, I was just annoyed at such a pointless post by a Mac user. |
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I'm trying to venture into learning Linux myself. I installed RH AS 3.0 on a virtual machine here at work. So far, I know how to start it in text mode, log in as root, and shut it down. Oh, I did create one user account and logged into it. Then I logged out, logged in as Root and shut it down. I downloaded the RH 9 ISO images (the ones with i386 in the file name) Set up a virtual PC on my XP box at home, and it won't boot from the first CD. I do not have a floppy drive, so I can't boot to a FDD to get it to start the install from CD. Anyone got any suggestions on getting it installed on a virtual PC on a machine with no FDD? Also, any materials or book suggestions? Not ones that just define commands... some beginner's books. Something that will show me how to actually DO things in Linux. (useful things... like email, web browsing, instant messaging... web hosting... USEFUL stuff!) |
Im a huge Gentoo fan.
Yeah and windows interface is just a variant on GDE, whats your point. Mac OSX has as much incommon with unix as windows has incomon with a blender. You find me a shell console on a mac or an init system or a /dev for that matter. |
Thats pretty much how all of them work. Not that your first time will be the easiest thing ever done on a computer, recompiling the kernal isnt something I would shy away from. Good learning experience. Plus whats the fun of using *nix as a web browser and e-mail storage unit? To the question at hand. I have been stuck in SuSE 9.x for quite a while now. I dont know why, but for my 'toy' at home I always liked it. I would stick with Fedora if thats what you are comfortable with. Fedora is only getting better IMO. Lot of friends of mine are using it and I havent heard too many complaints myself. |
Use Nero (or whatever cd burning app you want ) to burn the RH images as ISO CD images, set your PC's bios to boot off the CDROM, and away we go. |
