06-18-2004, 09:53 PM
Hi,
My brother has always been a large linux advocate, and he talked me into giving it a try.
Used to be we'd say, "Want to be a UNIX guru? Then sit next to a UNIX guru." Like many things, UNIX (and linux) is best learned by osmosis. If your brother is available to help, get him to do so. And go with what he recommends, because the differences in the flavors is just enough to give a person the fits (and, no, there isn't much difference in running apps, but setting up a system is another whole thing).
If you are going to do it solo, and you have to ask, then I'd say go Red Hat. They've got the easiest installation, and a large, useful, mostly friendly (as long as you make it clear in your question that you've RTFM, many of them will go so far as to e-mail you patches) set of users. If you are really OS naive, you might even want to buy one of Red Hat's distributions to get the hand holding they supply. I just usually download their isos.
Good luck. Remember, a journey of a thousand miles starts with one step -- but the remaining 999.99 miles are a real bitch :)
--Pete
My brother has always been a large linux advocate, and he talked me into giving it a try.
Used to be we'd say, "Want to be a UNIX guru? Then sit next to a UNIX guru." Like many things, UNIX (and linux) is best learned by osmosis. If your brother is available to help, get him to do so. And go with what he recommends, because the differences in the flavors is just enough to give a person the fits (and, no, there isn't much difference in running apps, but setting up a system is another whole thing).
If you are going to do it solo, and you have to ask, then I'd say go Red Hat. They've got the easiest installation, and a large, useful, mostly friendly (as long as you make it clear in your question that you've RTFM, many of them will go so far as to e-mail you patches) set of users. If you are really OS naive, you might even want to buy one of Red Hat's distributions to get the hand holding they supply. I just usually download their isos.
Good luck. Remember, a journey of a thousand miles starts with one step -- but the remaining 999.99 miles are a real bitch :)
--Pete
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