Tom Diehl on 10 Feb 2006 21:27:29 -0000


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[PLUG] Re: distro choice


On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, morgan wrote:

> Ron,
> 
> I see a lot of Redhat Enterprise Linux in the industry.  Fedora Core is 
> close, but it might be worth at least explaining the differences to your 
> students if installing REL isn't an option.

If you want EL but do not want to spring for the rhn subscriptions
look at centos (http://centos.org/) . Centos is a rebuild of RHEL. They even
track Red Hat quarterly updates and have a very active mailing list.

 
> I do see some Debian, Ubuntu and Gentoo around a lot but not 
> commercially installed.

+1

Most of the jobs I have looked at in the past were based on Red Hat
something. I think SuSe is making some inroads into the enterprise arena
but from here Red Hat still dominates.

HTH,

Tom Diehl		tdiehl@rogueind.com		Spamtrap address mtd123@rogueind.com

> 
> -morgan
> 
> 
> 
> Ronald Kaye Jr wrote:
> > Suppose you were teaching a linux class to networking students.
> >  
> > you want to give your students exposure to 4 or 5 at most
> > distros. job marketability and installed base are of primary importance.
> >  
> > 1) what criteria would you use to make this decision?
> >  
> > 2) what would your current choices be ( i will start with fedora core 
> > and suse)
> >  
> > 3) is there central location for a list of distros and hardware 
> > requirements?
> > (we may want to look into distros for our old, hardware challenged 
> > equipment,
> > like my old ibm p2 200-400 MHz PCs)
> >  
> > Thank you in advance for your insights.
> >  
> > Ron Kaye
> >  
> >  
> >  
> > 
> > 
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