[OT]RE: Learning UNIX

[juliemac57@hotmail.com (Julie Macfarlane)]

The step from RH 7.3 to 8.0 is huge. The install time is also HUGE!
If you want an FTP I can send a link. Just do the first 3 ISO's. The rest 
are docs etc.
Also running RH 8.0 with DNS, Apache and sendmail.
Celeron 700 with 500mb



Julie Macfarlane
Menlo Park Research & Development
Internet Application Developer
Amsterdam NY





>From: Drew MacPherson <drew@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca>
>To: Neal <nealtovsen@yahoo.com>
>CC: Scirocco-L <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: [OT]RE: Learning UNIX
>Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 14:06:11 -0500 (EST)
>
>On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Neal wrote:
>
> > Linux has become MUCH EASIER to install and learn than it was when I 
>started
> > about six years ago. Almost any of the current distributions (Linux is
> > available from numberous vendors) are pretty well-developed. I use 
>RedHat
> > myself, but there is also Mandrake, SuSe, and others.
> >
> > Neal
>
>SIX years ago???  My first flirtings with Linux were late '91, early '92.
>After a brief session with OS/2, wolfsburg.cs.uoguelph.ca became my first
>Linux desktop install in the summer of 92.  Going into my 11th year of
>running Linux, on my 3rd hardware platform (currently Redhat 8.0 on a
>pII450 w/512 mb of ram) and my 4th major install/upgrade, I can safely say
>that Linux has come A LONG LONG, LONG way, baby.
>
>For the Linux Newbie looking to get their feet wet I would recommend
>Redhat 8.0 - it's dead simple to install, has good hardware support, and
>has enough toys, bells and whistles to allow the average user to do most
>of what they need to do.
>
>Drew (coming to you from scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca)
>
>
>
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