On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Stephen Wimberly <[email protected]> wrote: > I still want to learn more about Linux, but I'm also sort of waiting > until we decide which 'flavor' we'll be using. I'd take raspberry > over lemon though myself.
Well, given that the pressure's off, I would say it's a good opportunity to start playing. Now less directed learning is more acceptable. Flavor doesn't matter nearly as much now. While there is variation between the different flavors of *nix, most of what you learn will be applicable. It's akin to the differences between major releases of Windows. There are a lot of differences between Windows 2000 Server and and Windows 2008. But most things one learned for Win2K still work in 2008. Likewise, most of what you learn for, say, Red Hat, would be fairly applicable to Debian. Even if they use different commands for some things, the concepts are similar. Virtualization on the desktop is a great way to do this. If you don't already have a solution, Microsoft's Virtual PC is free. Then download a copy of a distro and try things out -- run Linux in a window on your PC. Play with Linux while you're waiting for other things to finish. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is prolly the most common Linux flavor for "corporate" environments. There's a clone of it called "CentOS" which is freely available (this is completely legal, as Red Hat publishes almost all the source code to RHEL. (http://www.centos.org/) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
