On Sunday 28 November 2004 09:36 pm, Joe and Colleen Huber wrote:
> I'm sure this gets asked on a regular basis but I'm not having much luck
> turning anything up in the archives so here goes... I'm looking for a
> recommendation for which distribution to go with as a "newbie."
SuSE, Fedora or Mandrake.
> As a bit more information while trying not to ask too many things as
> once... I've been programming (OpenVMS) for the last decade, had set up my
> PC to dual boot Win 2000 and RedHat 7.1 about 2 years ago (wanted to play
> around with web design) and had Apache running on the RedHat side, poked
> around a bit, then things sort of fell by the wayside. All I have is a
> (win)modem.
winmodems can be made to work. I have not done it my self since I was on DSL
when I started using Linux and have not needed to worry about it. Start with
the howto at:
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Linmodem-HOWTO-1.html and
come here for help if you get stuck.
> I was talking to qwest on Tuesday (just the minimum - 256 upload/download).
> Haven't talked to Cox. If anyone has any comments good, bad or otherwise on
> either I'd appreciate those as well. Qwest said they would handle all the
> set up on the PC (I didn't ask if that meant "windows set-up").
In my experience, it means "windows set-up." If you dual boot, have them do
your windows side. Then, you can use all that information to configure the
Linux side.
> The PC I have at the moment is almost 6. The short term (shortly after
> Christmas) is a (new) dual boot system Windows (for the wife) and some
> Linux distro. I've got a hosted website out there - static HTML with a
> sprinkling of JavaScript. Things are getting to the point where I would
> like to start getting into some server side stuff (get Apache and MySQL
> running) so that I have something to learn/test on for web development.
> Should I just pull the RedHat 7.1 off the shelf? I get the impression that
> RedHat has sort of moved away from the "personal computing" market.
Anything you put on the internet should be updated and patched against any
vulnerablilities. I don't think RedHat 7.1 will be up to speed for that.
RedHat got away from the "retail" market with the end of the "Red Hat Linux"
product at version 9. They then "absorbed" and now directly support the
Fedora project at the leading edge distribution but do not market it through
usual retail channels. When that transition was made, I stayed with Fedora
and have been largely happy with it. I have not installed Fedora Core 3, the
just released version, yet. I'll wait a month or so to let it settle out
before I move to it.
> Any thoughts appreciated.
Questions are appreciated too.
Alan
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