Ted Roche wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The problem with Linux is there is a new flavour of the month nearly every >> month it seems. Red hat used to be the one. I liked Fedora myself. Now its >> Ubuntu ? I cant keep up :) >> > > That's silly. And the problem with Windows? There Is No Choice. > > Distros are just different vendors packaging of the _same_ components. > They all share the same kernel. They all share the choice of a couple > of desktops (GNOME, KDE, etc.). They all share the same applications. > There are different ways they chose to package them, and different > target markets. Red Hat and SuSE are for corporate, enterprise types. > OpenSuSE and Fedora are for smaller, DIY and hobbyists. Ubuntu is for > Human Beings. You can pay for support, you can depend on community > support, or you can pay the chap down the street for support. Choosing > one over the other doesn't mean you're locked in for life. Think of it > more as choosing a brand of car or TV: find one you like and use it > for a while. Switch to another (bringing over all your *stuff*) if you > find one you like better, you're not satisfied or for the heck of it. > Or pick one and standardize on it if that's what you want. > > It's All About Choice. And Choice is Good. > > >
I like Fedora because it is kept so current, and because it has an easy upgrade path to Red Hat Linux, a commercial version of the OS. I also like Linux because it is so modular. I can install or uninstall the applications I need/like Gnome, PostgreSQL, Postfix, dbMail, Apache, Quake, VMware for Linux, perl, php, python, various c and c++ languages, bash and korn shell, etc, even the browser. LOL. The secret is to define what your Linux distribution is to do, and then concentrate in those areas to build your nich. If your Linux is to be a desktop, then install the services need to run a desktop. If your Linux is to be a DBMS, then install your open source database of choice and concentrate on it. There is no need to install a bunch of stuff you will never need, or if the such stuff is already installed, then there is no need to start unnecessary services. Everything you learn in Linux is very portable across other OS lines. For example, learn MySQL on Linux and then you can use that knowledge in other OS(s) like Solaris, Mac, Unix, Windows, etc. So far as the OS is concerned, you will find things like NFS, and security very similar across all other Unix like OS(s). Don't try to learn everything at once; because, Linux is too broad of a subject of any one person to know it all. Just mastering a single area of Linux, like security, can be a daunting task, and this is before learning more specific Linux security applications like SELinux, which is an open source, role based security module. So if you are just starting out, define what you want Linux to do for you, and focus on those area to limit the scope and learning curve of Linux. You can run a commercial versions of Red Hat Linux, which doesn't upgrade as often as Fedora, but is never the less very well kept up. Also, the commercial version should make it easier to upgrade, for example, from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 to Red Hat Enterprise 5: Workstation with Basic SubscriptionWeb support, 2 business day response, unlimited incidents 1 Year $179. https://www.redhat.com/apps/store/desktop/ Redhat Enterprise Linux Standard Subscription 12x5 phone support, web support, unlimited incidents 1 Year $799 https://www.redhat.com/apps/store/server/ Regards, LelandJ --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
