Distro Wars (was Certifications - Thoughts?)

[George Toft]

I think Carl's advice is the best I've ever seen - use what
your friends use.  If they don't use Linux, I offer this 
advice: 
1.  Head on over to cheapbytes.com and buy the $4.99
cd for Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE, Debian, and Slackware.
2.  When you partition your hard drive, make sure you
create a /home partition and a /usr/local partition.
This way, you can reinstall another distro by reformatting
all of the other partitions (not /home and /usr/local),
and all of your enhancements - properly installed in
/usr/local - and all of your personal stuff will still
be in place.
3.  Try each distro and see which one does it for you.
I tried (in order) Red Hat, Caldera, Debian, SuSE.  I
had tried Slackware a few months prior on another box.
Even though I installed several different distros, the
files in /home and /usr/local carried over, and worked
on each distro.

Another trick you can employ is to use VMWare (for NT)
to practice installing.  If you really goober it up,
no big deal since the VMWare disk drive is just a file
on NT.

Have fun - try them all.  Worst case: you reformat and
remember what you learned.

George




gonzalba@wellsfargo.com wrote:
> 
> Hi List,
> 
> First of all: I'm totally and sadly a Newbie on Linux.
> 
> Second a couple of questions: I've been reading allot about Linux and I'm
> prepared to install it on my machine at home. (I have a couple of friends
> that are Linux enthusiast). Which distribution is the one that you, as a
> list, use? Then again, which distribution is best suited for a Web and
> Client/Server programmer? I know about Chilisoft as an ASP Server, but I
> need more guidance.
> 
> I'm totally new to the environment. Although I had my share of C/C++
> programming at collage, I haven't use it in a while.
> 
> Third, I'm currently working at Wells Fargo, and they asked me the
> Brainbench certification for SQL and ASP before I started to work here. Hope
> that answers the question.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl Parrish [mailto:cparrish@cox.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 9:45 AM
> To: Plug-discuss
> Subject: Re: Certifications - Thoughts?
> 
> Well they're cheap. What I would like to know if is anyone has ever
> gotten a job because of a brainbench cert?
> 
> Carl Parrish
> 
> On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 06:31, Dr. G wrote:
> > What are those? Heh, I've just never heard of them before..got any
> > correspondin links?
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "George Toft" <george@georgetoft.com>
> > To: "PLUG Discuss" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 6:24 AM
> > Subject: Certifications - Thoughts?
> >
> >
> > > I'm not going to ask if anyone has an opinion - not on this list -
> rather,
> > > I would like to know what people's thoughts are on BrainBench Certs.
> > >
> > > George
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