I'm still running 6.2 :) -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ed Wilts Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 12:52 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Squeaky newbie On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 12:17:15PM -0400, Tom McCaffrey wrote: > Years ago, (maybe three or four?) I purchased RedHat 6.0 but never > installed it. More than four... Red Hat Linux 6.0 was released in 1999 I think. I *strongly* recommend you give up on 6.0. It's old and most of us have either forgotten 6.0-specific things or haven't worked with releases that old. > Today I decided to give it a shot and did manage to install it (server > version) and got it to boot up and even logged in successfully as > root. But.. this is all I've done. Don't know where to go from this > point and the manuals I got with the program are... well... manuals. > What I am wondering is if anyone knows where I might find a tutorial > that will skip all the blather and enlighten me as to how to set this > thing up - with security. For starters, you can not make a Red Hat Linux 6.0 secure. There are known vulnerabilities in the software that have never been fixed. For a secure environment, you will need to run a newer version of Linux. For a server, you've got enough CPU, memory, and disk to run a newer version - I'd recommend that if you want a free operating system without support that you look at the Fedora releases ( http://fedora.redhat.com). You then need to decide what you actually want this system to do for you. There are a lot of tutorials online (and Fedora documentation is online on Red Hat's web site) but if you can tell people what you need, we might be able to point you in the right place. Cheers, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjecthttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
