RH and XP

[Myles Green]

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 07:43, bof wrote:
> Michael Hipp wrote:
> 
> > Joel Hammer wrote:
> >
> >> Regarding Net Llama's comment, if you want to learn linux, there is 
> >> nothing wrong with using an older distribution.
> >
> > All true, but I'd still recommend he go ahead and download RH 9.0. By 
> > having a boxed set he has manuals, and I assume that might be the draw 
> > of it. And the RH manuals are quite good for the most part. But 98% of 
> > the stuff in the in the older manuals will still apply and the rest 
> > can be gleaned from the online RH docs. I still use my RH 7.3 books 
> > when fiddling with RH 9.0. 
> 
> 
> Of course, he can download the documentation for older versions also: 
> all of the manuals should be available as .rpm files. They might be 
> available as an .iso image called the documentation CD, if he can find 
> an older ftp site, but I think that they were also available as 
> individual files.
> 
> As an aside, this is the second comment this morning on this list about 
> which distro to use when learning Linux. It used to be (even up to last 
> year) that for those who wanted to REALLY, REALLY learn Linux were 
> pointed towards Slackware as so much of it had to be set up manually via 
> configuration files --- which was considered to be a good learning 
> experience. Of course, one problem with this is that Slackware uses the 
> BSD-style init scripts, and uses the .tgz "package manager" so that 
> those using it as a learning tool would not get the knowledge of the Sys 
> V init setup and .rpm that seems to have become the de facto standard 
> for Linux distributions.
> 
> But has Red Hat really become so dominant that it is now the standard 
> when it comes to learning Linux?
> 
> And more importantly to me, when I dump RH 7.3 at the end of the year 
> from RH not supporting it any more and go back to Slackware, will I 
> someday be the only Slackware user left in the world? <g>

Nope. I use it here as well, starting w/ Slackware 3.2 (or was it 3.4?).
Oh, I venture off to check out other distros once in a while, but I just
gotta have my Slackware. You know, they say that once you've tried Slack
you won't want to go back.


-- 
Myles Green <myles-green at shaw.ca>