RedHat 7.1 seems to be current. SuSE is at 7.2 and Mandrake (my recommendation) is at 8,0. The numbers mean nothing relative to each other - only within each distribution. On Thursday 19 July 2001 11:43, you wrote: > Hello all. After my post to aztechlist I was referred over to here for > being a good place to learn Linux stuff. I'm a Microsoft bigot and it looks > like I'm turning to the dark side. <- Please don't flame me that was a > joke. > > I'll be installing my first Linux OS this weekend and hopefully getting it > to dual boot with Win2k. I haven't decided on a distribution yet, but it > will probably be Redhat. I've been told that I should get the redhat Linux > bible that has the 7.0 distribution so I think I'll be buying that. Is the > Red Hat 7.0 distribution relatively current? > > And I'll be getting the O'Riley "Running Linux" book as well (due to > popular opinion). > > Ron Russell - MCSE, CCNA, CNE > 480-6-Buddha > Silicon Buddha LLC > Enlightened Network Services > www.siliconbuddha.com > Offering Free Vulnerability Assessments from the deserts of Phoenix Arizona ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: ----------------------------------------