Tom Diehl on 10 Feb 2006 21:27:29 -0000 |
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 > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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