On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Shrinivasan T <[email protected]> wrote: > Fedora GNU/Linux Distribution is celebrating its 11th birthday today.
Many Happy Returns of this Day. > Though I have used it very little, might for few days in my 10 years > of life with GNU/Linux, > I installed it for many users. > > I started from slackware, refered by Chandrashekar. > Then, moved to Debian, refered by Raman. > > Then, explored Mandriva, OpenSuse, ArchLinux and Ubuntu. IMO, it is good for one to go through a few distros. Learn the pros/cons and different view points of administering them. > > All the distros just a wrappers for the applications we use. > Whatever the distro, we use only the Desktop Environments like KDE, Gnome etc, > and applications like browsers, email clients, terminal etc. > Let's not forget the server side of things. In this respect I have found Debian to be > What Fedora provides is the nice similar structure of RedHat. > IMO, it is a preview of what eventually winds up in the RHEL. > I suggest to try Fedora for all the people, who study for RHCE exam. > Most of the RHCE people I know are ignorant of the similirities of the > linux distros. > They steal the RedHat distro and they install it in their laptops and > computers. > They do not want to come out of RedHat. > IMO, it is a 'herd mentality' mindset. A few months back a client wanted a LAMP server with CentOS hosted at a Tier 1 data center. The tech support had no clue about CentOS! He kept telling me that he had the RHEL DVD and the install was not a problem. I spent a better part of the afternoon educating him as to why that would be bad for my client. Even worse, there are training institutes that still use Redhat 9 to train their candidates for RHCE! > Poor people. Indeed. > They dont enjoy the fancy and luxary stuff that a GNU/Linux distro provides. Which one are you referring to? > RedHat is good for servers. Not for laptops. Maybe not for laptops but there are desktops. At times a newer kernel + firmware does the trick for newer laptops. Also, there are a few commercial desktop apps that come as an "appliance" with RHEL desktop. > To learn the GNU/Linux, we have to use it in our daily use. > We have to use to hear music, to watch videos, to connect with wifi, > to play games, to install tons of application. +101 > > These RHCE guys can not do anything that a normal computer user can do > with their RedHat computers. > I have come across a few who use Windows desktop for their daily chores :( > Here, the Fedora gives them a surprise. > They can experience the same structure of RedHat and all the bells and > whistles of a modern GNU/Linux distro. > > With tons of new applications added to the Fedora repositories, they > can enjoy a new life and experience with a GNU/Linux system. > There are third party repos for RHEL/CentOS like EPEL, ELREPO ... the sum of which is supports a much larger package base. With respect to learning for RHCE, I would say go with CentOS - it is re-branded RHEL feature for feature bug for bug. Plus with 3rd party repos you can get a reasonable desktop experience as well. -- Arun Khan Sent from my non-iphone/non-android device _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
