To give Howard some help tonight, I throw this out rather than the normal vi vs. emacs (and vi wins, of course) a list of Linux distro's that eweek suggest managers know about. RHEL and Ubuntu didn't even directly make the list! I guess all IT manager already know how to spell them.
*Suggested 10 Linux Distros every Manager should know * from eweek 20111108 *Android* - Linux based but reworked by Google, has over 50% of mobile market *Chrome OS* - Googles work at doing 'all things cloud' with plug-in architecture *#!* - lightweight Debian, by design, fast, small, bare-bones good for netbooks, pronounced 'hash bang' *Lubuntu* - low resource - for older PCs, netbooks, etc *CentOS* - Red hat based without RHEL support, but more like RHEL than Fedora *Linux Mint* - Ubuntu spinoff staying with Gnome 2 desktop *Fedora* - RH sponsored, but has bleading edge parts, so expect pain *openSUSE* - KDE desktop similar to M$Windows. Uses Yast, not yum or apt for package management *Debian* - Requires more exprienced users. Without Ubuntu frills *Unbreakable Linux* - Oracle's re-skinned RHEL with 'hardened kernel, but at a $$ I never heard about #!, Lubuntu, or Unbreakable. Is Chrome OS considered a distribution? There are plenty more distributions, but are there more notible ones for general or business use (rather than like Slackware, Gentoo, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Linux_distributions has a significant list (but misses some of the above) of Linux distributions http://shop.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart - a 'distro store' where they make a profit from the USPS bandwidth! for those of us that live 'in the sticks' ><> ... Jack Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart... Colossians 3:23 "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." — Admiral Grace Hopper, USN "It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" — Admiral Grace Hopper, USN "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate" - Henry J. Tillman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
