On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 13:52, Nathan Given wrote: > Glen (good to hear from you... we were in the same ward)... Yeah, I lurk around the newbie list :-) There aren't a whole lot of *nix dudes in Texas so yall are my link to sanity. > Well, I have redhat cd's... is it worth it to put redhat on my system? Right > now I have Mandrake 9.0 on a PII 333 MHz with 96 mb RAM. I mainly use my > linux machine to learn linux on and test new stuff (like, figure out how to > get a webserver running and php and mysql working also). In my opinion, I think Mandrake is a great distro to start learning on. However, redhat is also an excellent choice. I run redhat 9 on my main machine which now doubles as a mail/web server and dev box (my old web server is still in storage out in Provo!). Since apt for rpm came out, it is really hard to beat redhat for package management. Don't get me wrong, Debian and Gentoo are great in their own way but I think for "learning", redhat or mandrake are the way to go. You will get about the same performance using mandrake or redhat on your system. You may want to consider using a window manager like fluxbox if you feel that KDE or Gnome are feeling sluggish. I ran Mandrake 9 on an old pentium 200mhz box with 96 mb of RAM and all it did was serve mail. It did amazingly well and I used blackbox (similar to fluxbox) as a window manager. > > The redhat cd's I got were from a uug install fest in March... I don't know > what version they are... Most likely RedHat 8 or 9. Both are fine. It is really up to you.
> would it be worth it to put redhat on here? Again, I would say yes. However, if you don't want to go through an OS installation, don't do it. I do recommend Redhat 8 or 9 over Mandrake 9.0. Just my opinion :-) Feel free to contact me off list with any other questions you might have! -- Glen Wagley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
