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Good day,

I have ordered some RH 9 cd's.
Done some home work on google.
Some knowledge of debian squeeze and opensuse 11.3.

Being a pensionar I do have the time to fiddle around with different
distros.

May need some assistance along the redhat way.

Regards
Johan

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Good day,

I have ordered some RH 9 cd's.
Done some home work on google.
Some knowledge of debian squeeze and opensuse 11.3.

Being a pensionar I do have the time to fiddle around with different
distros.

May need some assistance along the redhat way.

Regards
Johan

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Welcome! RH9 is a touch old, you may want to look into getting a newer
version of A) centOS or B) fedora. Cent is free (as in beer and speech) and
is basically the same thing as RH minus the brandings and support. Fedora is
actually created by red hat as their test bed for new features, so when the
features make it into Red Hat enterprise they can have a few years of
vetting by the community to ensure that they're robust and mature.

-Matty

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Johan Scheepers <johansche@telkomsa.net>wrote:

> Good day,
>
> I have ordered some RH 9 cd's.
> Done some home work on google.
> Some knowledge of debian squeeze and opensuse 11.3.
>
> Being a pensionar I do have the time to fiddle around with different
> distros.
> May need some assistance along the redhat way.
>
> Regards
> Johan
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Yep, I will second that. You won't find much support for RH9, try Fedora13
or 14, or Centos

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Johan Scheepers <johansche@telkomsa.net>wrote:

> Good day,
>
> I have ordered some RH 9 cd's.
> Done some home work on google.
> Some knowledge of debian squeeze and opensuse 11.3.
>
> Being a pensionar I do have the time to fiddle around with different
> distros.
> May need some assistance along the redhat way.
>
> Regards
> Johan
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Hi Johan,

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 08:28:37PM +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote:
> Good day,
>
> I have ordered some RH 9 cd's.

Umm, why? RH 9 is extremely antique and no longer supported. That
means you can't get any security (or any other) updates for it and
will be vulnerable to crackers. Furthermore, if you machine is very
recent, it may not support the hardware very well.

> Done some home work on google.
> Some knowledge of debian squeeze and opensuse 11.3.

I've no experience with either of those.

> Being a pensionar I do have the time to fiddle around with different
> distros.
> May need some assistance along the redhat way.

If you want to mess around with Red-Hat-ish distros, you want either
Fedora (version 14 is just out) <http://fedoraproject.org/> or CentOS
(v5.5 is current, and v6 will be out soon) <http://www.centos.org/>.
Fedora is the cutting edge trial area for what will become a real Red
Hat release. CentOS is the free variant of the current Red Hat, and
is nearly exactly like RH except for the branding and (of course)
support.

If you are new to Linux, especially if coming from Windoze, you might
want to consider Ubuntu <http://www.ubuntu.com/> which is a derivative
of Debian, but is geared more for the Windoze escapee. It has more
recent stuff than CentOS, but more stable, and for the most part, Just
Works.

All three distros mentioned can be set up to auto-update, so that you
always have the latest and most secure stuff.

> Regards
> Johan


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Why those particular versions? RH is old and no longer supported. If you want a "free" community-based distro, Fedora.

CentOS for "RH clonne".
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Matty Sarro wrote:
> Welcome! RH9 is a touch old, you may want to look into getting a newer
> version of A) centOS or B) fedora. Cent is free (as in beer and speech)
> and is basically the same thing as RH minus the brandings and support.
Fedora
> is actually created by red hat as their test bed for new features, so when
> the features make it into Red Hat enterprise they can have a few years of
> vetting by the community to ensure that they're robust and mature.

Yeah, I went up from RH9 (shrike) about 4 years ago. Fedora... to call a
spade a spade, fedora is bleeding edge, not leading edge. 14 beta *seems*
to be working ok on the one box I've put it on, but I *HATED* FC13 - same
workstation, all kindsa problems. And it crashed with kernel panics
several times in the 3-4 months it was on it.

mark

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On 11/16/2010 10:28 AM, Johan Scheepers wrote:

Good day,

I have ordered some RH 9 cd's.


Red Hat 9 went end-of-life about four years ago, Johan. You really
need to go with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5 or 6.0.

CentOS is also a good bet, as it's built from Red Hat's source RPMs and
is, essentially, identical (except for some branding, logos, etc.).
The kicker is...it's free! The only caveat is that there's a bit of a
lag between any updates from Red Hat and having them appear on CentOS
(as the CentOS gang has to grab the source code, change the branding
and stuff and rebuild them).


Done some home work on google.
Some knowledge of debian squeeze and opensuse 11.3.

Being a pensionar I do have the time to fiddle around with different
distros.


The "experimental hamster" for Red Hat is called "Fedora". That's
where all the heavy development is done. The latest RHEL 6 is based on
Fedora 12. The previous RHEL 5 was based on Fedora 6. The current
Fedora release is Fedora 14 (just came out a few weeks ago) and there
are still some teething pains with it.

If you want the latest, get Fedora 14. Depending on your level of pain
tolerance, you may want to go with the more stable Fedora 13. If you
want TRUE stability, stick with RHEL or CentOS.


May need some assistance along the redhat way.


I've been using all of them for about 15 years and I can help if needed.
I'm also an assistant sysop for this forum, but you'll find me on the
Fedora user's list (users@lists.fedora.org) or the Fedora test list
(test@lists.fedora.org).
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On 16/11/2010 21:01, Bob McClure Jr wrote:

Hi Johan,

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 08:28:37PM +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote:


Good day,

I have ordered some RH 9 cd's.


Umm, why? RH 9 is extremely antique and no longer supported. That
means you can't get any security (or any other) updates for it and
will be vulnerable to crackers. Furthermore, if you machine is very
recent, it may not support the hardware very well.



Done some home work on google.
Some knowledge of debian squeeze and opensuse 11.3.


I've no experience with either of those.



Being a pensionar I do have the time to fiddle around with different
distros.
May need some assistance along the redhat way.


If you want to mess around with Red-Hat-ish distros, you want either
Fedora (version 14 is just out)<http://fedoraproject.org/> or CentOS
(v5.5 is current, and v6 will be out soon)<http://www.centos.org/>.
Fedora is the cutting edge trial area for what will become a real Red
Hat release. CentOS is the free variant of the current Red Hat, and
is nearly exactly like RH except for the branding and (of course)
support.

If you are new to Linux, especially if coming from Windoze, you might
want to consider Ubuntu<http://www.ubuntu.com/> which is a derivative
of Debian, but is geared more for the Windoze escapee. It has more
recent stuff than CentOS, but more stable, and for the most part, Just
Works.

All three distros mentioned can be set up to auto-update, so that you
always have the latest and most secure stuff.



Regards
Johan



Cheers,


Good day,

What can I say. Due to ignorance.

Starting to download Fedora 14 iso for cd.

Should I join a Fedora list or is this correct?

Thanks to all that responded.
Regards
Johan

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On 16/11/2010 21:13, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

Matty Sarro wrote:


Welcome! RH9 is a touch old, you may want to look into getting a newer
version of A) centOS or B) fedora. Cent is free (as in beer and speech)
and is basically the same thing as RH minus the brandings and support.


Fedora


is actually created by red hat as their test bed for new features, so when
the features make it into Red Hat enterprise they can have a few years of
vetting by the community to ensure that they're robust and mature.


Yeah, I went up from RH9 (shrike) about 4 years ago. Fedora... to call a
spade a spade, fedora is bleeding edge, not leading edge. 14 beta *seems*
to be working ok on the one box I've put it on, but I *HATED* FC13 - same
workstation, all kindsa problems. And it crashed with kernel panics
several times in the 3-4 months it was on it.

mark



Good day,

What can I say. Due to ignorance.

Starting to download Fedora 14 iso for cd.

Should I join a Fedora list or is this correct?

Thanks to all that responded.
Regards
Johan

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