| Author |
recommended distro's
|
|
| dok klene 2001-05-21, 1:47 pm |
| i have decided to start working on the Sair/GNU cert. Sair recommended working with 4 distributions. i'm looking for recommendations on the last two to try. the first 2 are redhat and caldera. Redhat because of it's market share and the amount of published material. Caldera because it is what my employer is interested in. I'm leaning towards Slackware (heard it was one of the most stable distro's) and Mandrake (heard it was the easiest), but i'm interested in suggestions. | |
|
| Mandrake and Slackware would actually be a pretty good choice.
Mandrake is pretty easy to install, but just doesn't have the out-of-box security that Slackware does.
Turbolinux is also pretty good, and comes with some nifty utilities to simplify configuration.
But...for anything you want to try, you should visit this site:
http://www.linuxiso.org/
They have ISO images of a wide variety of Linux Distros and some BSDs also.
-bbb | |
| dok klene 2001-05-21, 3:23 pm |
| thanks for the reply. linuxiso.org is a great site. I have already downloaded Redhat, Caldera, and 1 Mandrake disc from there.
Andy | |
|
| How long did it take for u to download.
Caldera is almost 600MB! DSL!
How many PC do you have? or you install all of them in one PC?
Just curious  | |
| ccieToBe 2001-05-21, 8:41 pm |
| That sounds like a good list. The only other distro that I'd recommend is Debian. SUSE's a big one too, but I don't think it's that crucial to know. | |
|
| For starters, I usually recommend Mandrake or Caldera. | |
| dok klene 2001-05-22, 5:41 pm |
| I'm downloading the distros over a cable modem at my office. I had a bad connection the other day, so it took over 3 hours for the Mandrake disk to download.
I have 3 computers for linux. One at the office and two at home. One of them is going to be a dedicated Redhat server and the other 2 will get reinstalled with different distros. | |
|
| Cool. Let us know how it turns out. | |
| nelsons1 2001-05-23, 11:05 am |
| I think I'm gonna try out the Caldera first...thanks guys for recommending that site linuxiso.org totally kewl
took me exactly 2 hours and 30 minutes to download the Caldera on my home dsl...
 | |
| Randy 2001-05-23, 11:16 am |
| As long as your HW is supported, I don't think you will have any complaints with Caldera. Let us know if you run into probs. | |
| nelsons1 2001-05-23, 7:19 pm |
| -Randy
I just received the book that you had recommended in your posting called "Running Linux" 3rd edition. I'm on chapter three already. So far it's been very informative and appears to be very well written. I figured any Linux book with your praise should be pretty good. What would you recommend as the next book after i'm done with this one, as the next step towards "Linux Guru." | |
|
| It really depends upon your interest . . . one thing I WOULD recommend strongly is once you settle on a distro that you like, get a book . . . a comprehensive book . . . that focuses on that distro and that distro alone . . . like 'Red Hat Unleashed' or 'Caldera Unleashed', and there are some VUE 'Using X (Caldera, mandrake, etc.) Linux' books that are very good as well. Get to know your own chosen distro very well . . . learn to rebuild the kernel to get rid of the stuff that you don't need and increase performance . . . learn to use Apache, the command line, and so on. Learning a good bit of BASH and Perl would be very useful, as they are both easy and allow you to understand the atuomation and configuration scripts that you will run into (or have to write from scratch). Then you can get into it a bit deeper. Also, I would recommend getting onvolved in a LUG or mailing list that is devoted to Linux troubleshooting and helping newbies . . . there is nothing that makes you learn quicker than trying to help someone else . . . they have this tendency to ask questions that you can't answer right off, then you have to do some research and . . . well, you get the picture. This is very productive as well. ou get to deal with newbies and pros alike and you leatn a lot this way. Books are good, but after the basics, you'll really want to get your hands dirty by exploring things for yourself. |
|
|
|