I'd have to agree with Steven. It almost comes down to a personal choice.
Mandrake Linux 7.2, Caldera and FreeBSD, Solaris 8 for Intel I have
installed, and they're pretty good
I found RedHat 5.x to 6.x to be pretty unfriendly for an initiate. But with
Redhat 7.0 I found their install procedure to be vastly improved. They
support a fair range of hardware (god love the Linux community) and their
dial-up (rp3) / networking is a little more straight forward. With the Gnome
GUI environment becoming fairly popular, there's a lot of tools out there.
www.linuxberg.com is a good site for tools/utilities for linux, much of it
works under Gnome or KDE and more.
Out of the choices (Linux flavours + Solaris for Intel) I would think that
RedHat was the best of the bunch for Commercial acceptance...someone correct
me here. From my experience I know a variety of companies who have become
"RedHat House".
Coming from a previously strong NT background, I found Redhat easier to
break-in to Linux, because all your applications are packaged into RPMs ,
making the whole process of updating OS tools and accessories a lot easier.
They've tailored their install procedure so that you can choose Server and
Workstation type installs. There's a neat utility called "up2date" which
auto-downloads and installs any updated OS packages for you. RedHat is a
popular linux flavour, its arguably the flag-carrier for linux because it's
the most widely known. It's got a lot of industry support from many large
hardware and software vendors, and they have their own certification
programmes. (no, I don't work for RedHat (-: )
But like any popular OS, as soon as it becomes popular it becomes a target
of hackers and script kiddies (the 15yr old pimply little brats who feed off
hacker genius), and thus the scale of "usability" vs. "security" gets a fair
run for its money. The Ramen worm that exposes vulnerabilities in RedHat
is testimony that even a good OS has flaws, and people are out there waiting
to find it.
So in summary, I can't answer which is better, but I can say that Redhat has
my thumbs up.... For now.
Cheers,
Nigel Hedges
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Pierce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 31 January 2001 6:43 PM
To: David Shoon-Yew Ng; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Types of Linux.
David,
I guess it is all who you ask. I know people that only use RH, but other
use Caldera. I have used RH and
FreeBSD. One of the things that I like about FreeBSD is that it is more
like a Unix. It is also more secure
with things like FTP, Telnet and the like. Now Caldera is one that I have
heard has a really clean install
and interface to it. So it all depends on what you are trying to do. Which
ever version you choise make
sure that it is the one you stay with. It is not good to jump back and
forth between ver. It will just get your more
confused. Well at least with me.<G>
Good luck on your decision, I can bet you will get a few other comments from
the list..
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On 1/31/2001 at 18:48 David Shoon-Yew Ng wrote:
>Dear all,
> I have a question regarding Linux/UNIX in general. I am starting to
learn
>UNIX/Linux but want to focus on one particular area. Which particular
>version is better - RedHat/Caldera/TurboLinux/Corel etc ... it seems there
>are so many versions that it might just be better running SUN Solaris 8
>(Proper UNIX)on Intel platform instead? Which particular version/type is
>used commercially nowadays (on Intel platform) and which is more popular in
>general for Servers/Server based application etc ... Please advise ...
> Thanks in advance ...
>
>
>Sincerely,
>
>
>
>
>David Ng
>
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