Have I gone Nuts?

[Michael Hipp]

Ben Duncan wrote:
> And for the NEXT question, are there ANY recommendations on what a
> GOOD Distro for using to teach the NEXT class with ?

It depends on what you're trying to teach ...

If the class consists of hacker types who want to learn all the arcane 
details, then use one of the macho distros (Slack, Debian, Gentoo, LFS).

If the class is more "normal" then use a well-supported commercial 
distro (aka Red Hat).

There are two distinctly different ideas about what "learning" Linux 
means. Ok, maybe three: user, power user/sysadmin, hacker.

Here is perhaps a useful test question to ponder: "Do you want to teach 
them to make kernel modifications, or do you want to teach them to 
configure networking?"

All just IMHO, of course ...

Michael