Scot, do you have any good sources for loading either OpenSUSE or Fedora on a Virtual PC, since you mentioned it. Debian while a little difficult loaded like a charm compared to either of the others.
Jon On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > ~ 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
