Re: Time to start Linuxing..some questions?
- From: Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:53:57 GMT
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
I assume that the first stage is to boot something from CD that will getI have my own favorites. Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its relations (e.g.,
me on the net to download the rest..advice on how to bootstrap a raw
installation would be much appreciated.
The distro I would prefer would be rock solid, with full support for an
average to poor graphics card, the usual sound bollocks, and so on..
The intention is to build this machine as a stable platform for SAMBA,
and appletalk (atalk) to act as a files server for the Win98 and MACOS 9
machines..printing is already networked here..and also to investigate
use of VMWARE for some PC windows apps, and Star office(?) for Excel
word compatibility, with a view to getting a laptop in 2007 and running
most of what I want under Linux with more portability than at present.
Also firefox/thunderbird etc.
What I DON'T want is 'plug and play we do everything for you just like
windows'...I'd rather edit config files by hand with vi thank you. At
least I know if it screws up where to look.
Apache and MySQL will go on there later. Want to experiment with web
forms on a database..
So a rock solid distro, with a slender graphics environment..and basic
outline of how to get raw hardware into a networked stated?
CentOS). These are not bleeding edge software. The emphasis with these
distributions is stability. So while they are updated with the latest
security enhancements and bug fixes, they add no new features. I find this
nice because I do not have to upgrade every year. This machine, for example,
is still running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 which is around 3 years old now
(RHEL4 has been out around a year, I think, and RHEL5 may become available
late this year; new releases come out about every year and a half) as Red
Hat supports these distributions for 7 years, I think. If you get it from
Red Hat, it will cost you about $365/year so you probably would want a
clone, Such as CentOS 4.3. CentOs is free, but they do accept contributions.
Now all distributions that I know of (and that is not many) have lots of
features, windowing stuff, etc., servers for everything and its brother.
But Red Hat, and I assume the rest, allow you to install less than
everything on the system. So I have GNOME, but not KDE. You do not actually
need either. You will find one or the other to be convenient.
So I do not install Apache, Samba, most of the other servers, though I do
run bind and sendmail and ssh. I never installed the games, though I have
NetHack on this machine.
But before this turns into a commercial for Red Hat, I suggest you find
whatever one is most popular where you are so you can be part of a mutual
assistance community. With your prior experience, you may not need it much,
but is nice of it is there.
As far as getting a machine started on Linux, assuming it has no OS in it
now, you can either buy the CD-ROMs or download them to another machine and
burn them. If you want to download them, you sure want a high speed
connection: we are talking of 4 CD-ROMs or more.
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