RH is popular as a server. It isn't popular as a desktop, and has more or less abandoned that market reciently. You'd be better off with Suse.
1) 95% of your book will still apply. 2) You'll have a distro more designed for use on a desktop. 3) Suse is (IMHO) growing faster than RH, and the installed base would be similar. RH might have North America, but Suse has Europe. Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cameron Nikitiuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 7:31 AM Subject: RE: (clug-talk) Install - Red Hat 8 - Follow-up > Any ideas for tweaking it? I thought about RAM and will look into putting > more in, but was more interested in getting it working. > > I know people really have a mad on for Red Hat, but my reasons for tinkering > with it is this: > 1) I have a big ass book that offers me some resource material. > 2) Red Hat seems to be the MS of Linux as far as install base and > name-branding in the marketplace. > 3) With reference to point 2, if I am going to move forward in my IT career, > then I figure knowing how to work and play with the more "industry-popular" > distros gives me an edge. I can say that I have experience. > 4) It came with the big ass book ;-) > 5) As the first Linux distro I have gotten working for myself, it will > provide me a springboard to try other distros as I gain more confidence, > knowledge and skill. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Aaron J. Seigo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: November 13, 2003 7:01 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) INstall - Red Hat 8 - Follow-up > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Thursday 13 November 2003 12:02, Cameron Nikitiuk wrote: > > > Using Gnome or KDE with a 2MB video memory is painful!!! May > > have to dig > > > > your video memory won't have any impact on GNOME or KDE. it only > > effects what > > you can do with X itself: resolution and colour depth, fancy > > hardware-based > > transforms. if GNOME/KDE are slow, it's much more likely to be > > your RAM, CPU > > speed and disk speed, in that order. > > > > that and RH8 is god awful slow compared to more recent distros =) > > > > - -- > > Aaron J. Seigo > > GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQE/s46C1rcusafx20MRAhXPAJ9cPc7CpJPKzwn0xGt+CW3rX84O0gCgi4Jc > > i/ugHeZlvhMnmdoHd7SUxWM= > > =t7AL > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > >
