On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:21:56PM -0800, Jason Riker wrote: > Hello again. I'm relatively new to the list and was wondering how many > (if any) others are using RHEL as a home OS? I've been working on Unix since about 1980; at one point, I was teaching Unix internals at Bell Labs. I started running SVR2 at home around 1982 or '83--an Altos 7, then a 3B1 (lots of hardware hacking!), and finally the Dell release of SVR2 with mucho early GNU. I knew about Linux in its early days, but it was too raw to do anything professional with it. Then I checked it out again around 6.0, and found a pleasant surprise--it reminded me a lot of Unix in the '80s, especially the fervent advocacy and rapid development. I ran 5.2, then 6.1 as my firewall/ server, and played with development machines through release 9. I've found, however, that Redhat's stiffer pricing has made it a harder sell at clients; SuSE has gone over better, although I'm moving more Dell servers with RHEL now. For home learning/use, I don't know that you really get that much more buying RHEL--I don't think you get enough to justify the cost at home--but Fedora has come to the point I'd recommend it with few reservations. (The only real problem I have is that I couldn't ever really turn Fedora loose on a client site that doesn't have an in-house IT staff; I could do that with pre-RHEL Redhat distributions.) There are also still some real shortcomings that prevent full replacement of Windows in some environments--especially in the area of VPN compatibility. But the real point, I guess, is that the only way to learn Uni--er, Linux-- it to get your hands on it. Run aids like Webmin to get started, but crawl under the sheets and dig around in the underlying config files and system architecture--including source--to really get a handle on how it all flies. Above all, have fun! -- Dave Ihnat ignatz@xxxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
