[SLUG] Learning Linux

2010-09-22 Thread Lee Isaacson
Hi all, What would be the best Distro to learn linux. Fedora or Ubuntu. I am thinking Fedora because most servers run red hat but then there is more information available for Ubuntu, I know some people may say CentOS but there the packages are not up to date and I will be using the distro as

Re: [SLUG] Learning Linux

2010-09-22 Thread Tony H.G Candito
A nice way of learning Linux is going over to LFS and setting up your own system; http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ As a primary system you'd want to be using as your main desktop in a Windows replacement context, you'll get more support from Ubuntu, but I can't fault either Ubuntu or Fedora. It's

Re: [SLUG] Learning Linux

2010-09-22 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 08:53:01AM +0200, Lee Isaacson wrote: What would be the best Distro to learn linux. Debian, of course. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] Learning Linux

2010-09-22 Thread peter
Aníbal == Aníbal Monsalve Salazar ani...@debian.org writes: Aníbal Isaacson wrote: What would be the best Distro to learn linux. Aníbal Debian, of course. Linux itself (the kernel) is pretty much the same whatever distro you use. Userspace is mostly the same too --- there are bigger

[SLUG] Re: Learning Linux

2010-09-22 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 07:53:01 Lee Isaacson wrote: Oh... just about any... http://distrowatch.com/ But, just about any version of Ubuntu or Kubuntu or Fedora or openSuSE is easy to install and use. Easier than winduhs. You just need to make sure you have enough RAM in your machine.

Re: [SLUG] Learning Linux

2010-09-22 Thread Michael Chesterton
On 22/09/2010, at 4:53 PM, Lee Isaacson wrote: Hi all, What would be the best Distro to learn linux. Fedora or Ubuntu. yes. Take your time and learn both. I take it you're looking to get experience for work? Both are handy to know. If you have, say, a gig+ of ram, you can install

Re: [SLUG] Learning Linux

2010-09-22 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 05:27:07PM +1000, Michael Chesterton wrote: On 22/09/2010, at 4:53 PM, Lee Isaacson wrote: Hi all, What would be the best Distro to learn linux. Fedora or Ubuntu. yes. Agreed, the more the merrier. Start with Ubuntu or Fedora; they're fine if you want

Re: [SLUG] enabling snmp on NIC ?

2010-09-22 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Mon, September 20, 2010 7:48 pm, Martin Visser wrote: I think the latest releases of Net-SNMP have been tightened up security wise. By default on Ubuntu, SNMP access is limit to the system description information. I suspect the same problem is occuring to you on Centos. In the line below

Re: [SLUG] Learning Linux

2010-09-22 Thread Troy Rollo
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 17:18:46 pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: In either case, start by forcing yourself to use the command line tools, not the GUIs, because: 1. The command line is more similar across distros than the GUIs are (with a few exceptions). 2. When

Re: [SLUG] Accounting and business software

2010-09-22 Thread Jon Jermey
There's also a newish one available online which is free for up to 20 transactions per month: http://www.saasu.com/ Jon. On 22/09/10 12:13, elliott-brennan wrote: Hi all, I haven't written back to everyone individually just yet, but wanted to send a general 'Thanks' first to everyone for