Best bet is to wait until the new RHEL comes out and CentOS copies that (don't hold your breath)
In the meantime checkout Arch Linux, not quite as hard core as Linux >From Scratch, not as hand fed as Ubuntu/SuSUE, not as time consuming to install as Gentoo. All you really have to do is follow the install guide: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide Of course ask yourself why you're performing those commands. You'll learn lots just with the install, then as everyone says put that box away somewhere else, learn how to ssh into it, if you've installed X then learn how to set up VNC/NXclient on it. Set up Apache on it with Vhosts, configure DHCP/DNS/postfix on it by hand to actually know what it's like to get these happening in a vanilla distro non specific fashion. Read this on why arch is the best choice: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Compared_to_Other_Distributions All other distros will be easy after learning something changeling like arch linux, the major difference to distros is just the package manager. If you learn one hard distro, then practice on the package managers using yum apt-get aptitude zypper emerge etc... you'll pick it up in a second. Also never loosing sight of the possibility you'll have to do a wget, tar xfvz, configure, make, make install, you'll always be able to install any package you need to on the fly. On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 5:10 PM, darrin hodges <[email protected]> wrote: > Centos is a RHEL rebuild or clone. Everything is the same except the > branding. That is why it may seem a little behind Fedora or Ubuntu or > whatever. > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Matthew Hannigan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 something moderately stable yet up to date. >> Then start running other distros in VMs or by double,triple, >> ... booting. >> >> Run Centos to get a feel for Redhat which is I think the >> most popular 'enterprise' linux. >> >> -- >> SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ >> Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >> > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
