Re: [PLUG] distro choice

[Brian Epstein <ep@epiary.org>]

> 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)

I have seen RedHat/Fedora primarily in the corporate world.  Following 
would be SuSE, Mandrake, Debian and occasionally Slackware.

If you want the same packages as RedHat ES, but don't want to spend the 
money, I'd suggest going with something like White Box Linux.

	http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/

It is supposed to be 100% compatible with RHEL binaries.  Personally, I 
use Fedora because it allows you to learn new features that will be 
introduced in RHEL.

As far as hardware requirements, your PCs are perfect for Fedora (or any 
of the distros).  That's the beauty of Linux.  I would suggest giving 
your students Knoppix CD's to take home and play with on their PCs. 
These cd's allow them to run Linux without touching their harddrives. 
They can practice without losing their own PCs.

ep

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