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
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> Arizona
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