Any home users on the list?

[Gavin McDonald]

Not to start an RWAR here, but as much as I promote RHEL for my enterprise
clients, when it comes to a home system, I really prefer slackware...

Not that I haven't tried my share of Distributions either, but in practice,
I find that slackware will teach you the most about how the internals of
Linux work.  Every roadblock I ever came across was well documented in the
pertinent config files, and I find it closer in "feel" to the big-iron
unices, like Solaris.  RHEL (and SUSE, and Debian,) hide too much of the
config behind other applications.  Not to say that's a bad thing, but if you
want to really _learn_ how your machine works, clicking buttons won't teach
you anything.  

For instance, find out how to rename a RHEL machine after the installer has
finished, or change the network config.  It's all under /etc/sysconfig in
RHEL, but in slackware, you edit the script that brings up the interfaces,
(etc/rc.d/rc.inet1) where the real magic happens.  Same thing with getting X
running.  Maybe I'm a little crazy, but I really liked XF86Config, once I
knew what I was doing.

Regards,

Gavin McDonald
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> -----Original Message-----
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> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of StephenW
> Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 3:49 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Any home users on the list?
> 
> Home ueser and learner for about three years now...
> 
> In that time I have tried uncounted distros (checkout
> http://www.distrowatch.com - especially look for LiveCDs, that is they run
> from
> the CD and do not need to be installed on your HD to experiment with them)
> Each
> one has taught me a little more.
> 
> Rummage the used book stores (and the name brand stores too) for helpful
> books
> - I still use RedHat Linux 9 Bible to look up lots of things.
> 
> StephenW
> Sarasota, FL USA
> 
> --- Jason Riker <jasonrkr at charter.net> 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'm using it 1) as a
> > Windows replacement and 2) as a means of learning Linux.  I wanted to
> > see if I'm crazy for doing this. :-)
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Jason
> >
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