Word... except, my best experience has been with RedHat.

; )

--- Blake Barnett <Blake.Barnett@developonline.com> wrote:
> If you really want to _learn_ linux, not just how to use it, but the
> technical nitty-gritty --Go with Debian.  If you want to simply use
> linux as
> you would use windows then Mandrake is probably best.  
> 
> There's no better way to learn than diving in.  Sink or swim.  I must
> have
> re-installed Slackware 5,000 times when I first started learning
> linux.
> 
> Blake Barnet
> Sr. Unix Administrator
> DevelopOnline
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Russell [mailto:ron@siliconbuddha.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 11:43 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Introductions
> 
> 
> 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
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