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 Tr bizzaro being a n00b to linux and being presented with all these choices. oh wait, thats what i am. i can easily imagine someone having interest in linux and not pursuing it just based on the very choices that make linux such a popular alt o/s for all of you. after reading typedeaF's response i have changed my plan vision a bit. i will still install RH for my first linux install, but i have d/lded freebsd, and plan to get debian today. i suppose ill combine my mult o/s system and my linux server project into 1. i cant help but agree with the unix aint for everyone thread, so while RH is holding my hand, ill jump into the deep end with debian on another hdd. im lucky enough to have a few hdd's laying around to play with so ill make use of them now. im hoping the theory behind each distro is the same and il be able to apply RH knowledge to debian and bsd. im sure ill find out the hard way if its an o/s for my future endeavors or if im forever banished to the microsoft kB. what the hell, while i was typing out loud, i decided ill get libranet and mandrake too. libranet ( by description only ) looked appealing to me, if a bit out of my reach right now. so this weekend im going for it. wish me luck in my first endeavor! if any of you have not ever visited the linuxiso.org's forums, there are some really great threads re: the future of linux, users of linux, and theory's for and against corporate intervention to make a "uber" linux. really fascinating reading for me, and im sure with some appeal to experienced users as well. http://www.linuxiso.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2011 http://www.linuxiso.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3234 these are 2 threads that i really enjoyed On 2003-03-13 23:22:37, typedeaF wrote >Hey, I glanced over quite a few responses here and just cant sit back and not comment. >1st of all, Linux is the Kernel, not the distrobution. So no matter what Package of Linux you get, be sure you get a stable Kernel. >As far as distrobution go, the market trend is RedHat so you might think thats definately the way to go. RH is the market choice right now because 1) they offer support 2) the offer certifications and 3) because they had enough money to market themselves. >Whats good about RH is RPM's. I wont lie, i absolutely love them. They make tarballs seem prehistoric. >Whats bad about RH is the same peoblem i have with all these popular distros: their interfaces are bloated useless garbage. >RedHat's Config panel has tons of front end applications that allow you to interface command driven processes via a GUI. SuSE has Yast which is just as nasty. They all prety much have one of these and this is what is supposed to really 'make' the distro. >Like XC was getting at, I think things like this encourage a level of laziness and blind you to the powerful inter workings of a UNIX based operating system. Not only that, but they are also not standardized and you will not see them on Solaris, or SCO, or IRIX. So you are wasting your time getting familiar with an interface that you may never use again should you decide to go to a different version of *nix. >UNIX's ability to pipe and redirect I/O through the shell is one its very stongest points. The ability to take the output of one program, pipe it into the input of the next, and so on ad infinitum. This is what UNIX is renowned for. You should want to get as close to the kernel as possible by interacting with the shell and not double clicking on some bloated GUI. >I agree with XC. Take the 'sink or swim' route and just dive right in. >So take whatever distro you want and install it with maybe KDE or Gnome so from time to time you can browe the web, play mmedia files, or maybe use KDE's Dev IDE, etc. >As far as the distro, who cares. Package systems like RPM make life easy, but UNIX has survived thus far w/o them and I am sure you could too. >And they all lived happily ever after...The End. Replies:
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