greetings.
i'm new to the newsgroup, and somewhat new to Linux. in fact, i'm so new,
that i don't have linux installed yet! (have worked with it at work some,
and have years of experience with other flavors of unix, but don't have it
at home).
in my searches for useful texts, i came across the following book:
"LINUX -- Installation, Configuration, Use; 2nd ed."
by Michael Kofler; Addison-Wesley Publishing
the cool thing about this book is that it comes with a Red Hat 6.0 cd, all
for $45, which i thought was pretty reasonable.
questions:
1. does anyone out there have experience with this manual? if so, do you
recommend it? do you advise against it??
2. if you advise against it, are there any good texts that you would
recommend for installing, configuring, and using linux?
3. is it worth it to install red hat 6.0, considering it's now at 6.2?
4. would i be able to get a free upgrade to 6.2 if i install 6.0 from this
cd?
5. do any red hatters out there know what this cd is likely to come with?
for example, is there a "baseline" installation of red hat that this cd is
likely to have? will it have apache web server? etc. etc.
6. finally, i'm considering installing linux/red hat/whatever on a pentium
100 w/ 48 MB ram and 1 GB disk space. i'd like to install apache and play
around with it, but i don't know at this point if i'd actually use that
machine to serve up a web site. (would have to consider firewalls, etc.,
and it's way too early for that, for me, for now). is that a reasonable
machine? (is the X-windows equivalent for linux a resource hog?)
thanks!
~~crb
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