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krista

January 28, 2011, 01:29:13 PM
After having been an ubuntu fanatic for 5+ years, I decided I wanted something more stable, so I looked around and found RHEL / CentOS / Fedora.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is what Dell licenses with their real servers. CentOS is basically the RHEL "beta" that the community uses. And Fedora is the desktop variant of the other 2. I'm very impressed with these. I started with Fusion linux, and it installed without much of a hitch. (ends up I sometimes have to ctrl-alt-backspace to get the login screen) Very smooth, youtube works as delivered. So when I had to redo a server at work, I used CentOS. It's not a "turn-key" as ubuntu, but it just feels better.

If you're using ubuntu and love it but sometimes wish for something even more stable, give these a go.

:) Chris
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MendoDave

#1
January 28, 2011, 05:36:03 PM
I used red hat many moons ago but I just found that all it was good for was web surfing and email. What I did like was that the machine would run for Months on end and never need to be rebooted, unlike windows 98 which sometimes needed rebooting several times a day.

fastwin

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January 28, 2011, 06:47:05 PM
What are you guys talking about? ;D
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#3
January 28, 2011, 07:34:36 PM
I'm talking about making a "Pipe" from Redhat to the DMF. That way If I get to engrossed in what I'm doing over there it will dump me out into the DMF directory.  ;D





derby

#4
January 28, 2011, 08:13:08 PM
Quote from: chris on January 28, 2011, 01:29:13 PM

CentOS is basically the RHEL "beta" that the community uses.


it's not really a "beta"... it's more like a community-supported OS built from the RHEL source w/o any of the redhat branding or support/software updates.
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January 29, 2011, 04:40:46 AM
For anyone that cares, and hasn't already figured it out the DMF server runs on CentOS 5

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#6
January 29, 2011, 08:20:43 AM
I ran red hat from 1996-1998 as a cfd machine ... Fortran code development
And execution.  Ran without a hitch that entire time until some pre pubescent
Ass-f*ck hacked into it and completely filled the memory.

No complaints except for the security.  It's probably better now.
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r00tchick

#7
January 31, 2011, 07:57:46 AM
Neato.  I used RH back in the day at work as our first web/mail server, and our first thin client server.  Then I found Debian and its derivatives and got addicted to apt-get.   ;)  Now I use Debian for servers, Ubuntu for desktops, and OpenBSD for firewalls.  Though I'm getting annoyed with some of the decisions the Ubuntu devs are making lately, and I'm thinking of trying out Linux Mint.

Ahks

#8
January 31, 2011, 09:32:51 AM
I'd be running linux exclusively if i didn't have an issue with compressed textures in Wine :( Arch/Debian/Ubuntu are my favorite flavors

cokey

#9
January 31, 2011, 10:54:31 AM
I wanna try Linux on my ny desktop.. good source for it?  Ive never used it before but always wanted to. I got this desktop as a tip with a quadcore.. picked up a 1T drive and might pick up more ram soon.. what's a good antivirus and firewall for linux? 
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#10
January 31, 2011, 01:41:33 PM
My limited experience with linux is that you don't need any av software.  Nobody really bothers when windoz is so common and exploitable. . .
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Ahks

#11
January 31, 2011, 01:54:39 PM
an  ti  vi  rus ??
Doesn't really need one  :)

Regarding a firewall...
I never use one on the computers inside my network. I rely on multiple NAT layers from an ISP router and my personal WRT54G with tomato. Good browsing habits from years of experience repairing malware infested computers puts me at a distinct advantage over most computer users tho :p

r00tchick

#12
January 31, 2011, 01:59:27 PM
LOL.  I read that as "explodable".  

Yeah, I've never bothered with any sort of antivirus/spyware software on desktop Linux.  Been a user for 10+ years at work & home and have never had a problem.  Let's hope I'm not speaking too soon!

Ubuntu would probably be a good distro for someone new to Linux.  It's geared to being fairly user-friendly and there's a large community of users, so it's easier to find help with problems.  I've read that Linux Mint is spiffy (it's based on Debian & Ubuntu, but they preinstall a lot of popular software such as flash and audio/video codecs that aren't installed by default in either of those) but I haven't tried it yet.  One of the awesome things about Linux is that if you don't like one version, there are a multitude of other versions to try.

Turf

#13
January 31, 2011, 03:52:17 PM
I've been a linux nerd for 3 years now, much prefer it for day to day. have a netbook that tri boots ubuntu 10.10, OSX and W7...only very rare situations find me booting into W7.

Antivirus isn't necessary with Linux, I love that it's steamlined and a very lightweight OS with tons of add ons...a fav of mine is cairodock which adds a very osx like dock...makes for very efficient navigation.
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

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#14
January 31, 2011, 07:16:57 PM
Quote from: cokey on January 31, 2011, 10:54:31 AM
I wanna try Linux on my ny desktop.. good source for it?

http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download

You can boot from the CD and play around without risking your existing Windows installation.  It's a good way to check that it's got drivers for your hardware.
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