Fedora follies

[David A. Bandel]

On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Susan Macchia <linux-sxs at sbmgarden.com> wrote:
>> David A. Bandel wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Anyone have any recommendations for a mainstream RPM distro not FC?
>>> Perhaps a different one will be a little more accomodating, especially
>>> to those who don't have the computer equivalent of a SUV.
>>>
>>> Ciao,
>>>
>>> David A. Bandel
>>

[snip]

>
> Methinks a minimum Debian system plus a few extras would be a better
> approach. I've heard that the business card iso provides a really
> minimum base, and you can suppress gnome/kde to choose a really
> lightweight desktop. Since you have lightyears of Debian experience,
> you could do this and maintain it in your sleep.

Debian installs in my 256Mb systems w/ RAM to spare.  I have plenty of
Debian systems.  I want to point out differences between systems to
help newbie admins.

I find most admins these days seem to need help finding their way
around from a CLI.  I was weaned on UNIX (SunOS 4 and Ultrix 3?).
Only after that was I introduced to DOS and later Windoze (first a
runtime 1.x, then another, I don't remember the version, but before
3.0).

I learned about systems from the hardware up.  Todays admins learned
from a GUI down.  Most have no clue what's beneath the hood (and I
could care less what color the hood is).  My objective is to teach
them why I keep saying "Linux is Linux is Linux" (that could be
modified to UNIX is UNIX is UNIX and MacOS X only proves my point as I
have worked on several Macs, AKA FreeBSD 4, via SSH after talking a
couple of folks through getting ssh up and running and creating me an
account w/ admin privileges -- from there it's a quick `sudo su -` to
root and I'm off).

But I need a mainstream RPM distro as a reference as files are found
in slightly different locations and a few things are modified a tiny
bit.  If I don't point to exactly the right place, GUI folks will be
lost.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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