RE: Any home users on the list?

From: Gavin McDonald (gavitron_at_gmail.com)
Date: 11/25/05

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Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 16:04:37 -0800

    Not to start an RWAR here, but as much as I promote RHEL for my enterprise
    clients, when it comes to a home system, I really prefer slackware...

    Not that I haven't tried my share of Distributions either, but in practice,
    I find that slackware will teach you the most about how the internals of
    Linux work. Every roadblock I ever came across was well documented in the
    pertinent config files, and I find it closer in "feel" to the big-iron
    unices, like Solaris. RHEL (and SUSE, and Debian,) hide too much of the
    config behind other applications. Not to say that's a bad thing, but if you
    want to really _learn_ how your machine works, clicking buttons won't teach
    you anything.

    For instance, find out how to rename a RHEL machine after the installer has
    finished, or change the network config. It's all under /etc/sysconfig in
    RHEL, but in slackware, you edit the script that brings up the interfaces,
    (etc/rc.d/rc.inet1) where the real magic happens. Same thing with getting X
    running. Maybe I'm a little crazy, but I really liked XF86Config, once I
    knew what I was doing.

    Regards,

    Gavin McDonald
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    email: me@gavitron.com
    phone: (604) 313-3845

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: redhat-list-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
    > bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of StephenW
    > Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 3:49 PM
    > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
    > Subject: Re: Any home users on the list?
    >
    > Home ueser and learner for about three years now...
    >
    > In that time I have tried uncounted distros (checkout
    > http://www.distrowatch.com - especially look for LiveCDs, that is they run
    > from
    > the CD and do not need to be installed on your HD to experiment with them)
    > Each
    > one has taught me a little more.
    >
    > Rummage the used book stores (and the name brand stores too) for helpful
    > books
    > - I still use RedHat Linux 9 Bible to look up lots of things.
    >
    > StephenW
    > Sarasota, FL USA
    >
    > --- Jason Riker <jasonrkr@charter.net> wrote:
    >
    > > Hello again. I'm relatively new to the list and was wondering how many
    > > (if any) others are using RHEL as a home OS? I'm using it 1) as a
    > > Windows replacement and 2) as a means of learning Linux. I wanted to
    > > see if I'm crazy for doing this. :-)
    > >
    > > Thanks.
    > >
    > > Jason
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