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Re: Where to get LINUX for home?

 
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John Poff
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Re: Where to get LINUX for home?

The difference between the home and professional versions of RedHat is that the home version comes with 30 days of support, while the professional version comes with 60 days of support [including phone support]. The professional version also comes with more software packages.

JP
James Wilson_5
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Re: Where to get LINUX for home?

Bill,

You don't have to buy the distro if you have a CD-burner and broadband (Dial-up will take ages) You can download images from the web and burn them. The downside is no support, but with "home/personal" versions you only get email support anyway and most places (like itrc) is a great way to get [better] help.

Just go to
Redhat : http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/iso/i386/

Claudio Cilloni
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Re: Where to get LINUX for home?

Agree with James.
There are (at least here in Italy) a lot of magazines that every month publish the CDs of each new Linux distribution (Red Hat, Suse, Mandrake, Debian, etc... FreeBSD, too). It's easy, cheap (5-6 USD) and fast. Usually I update so my linux home machine.

Cheers
Claudio
AlienRoadShow
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Re: Where to get LINUX for home?

All right, no more points (* and you know I'll give out ten *) until you've told me what packages are missing in the home version vs. the profesional version. Also, is licensing involved?

Also, I have no idea what a 'distro' is. Is that like "you dissin me bro"? 'Disbro'. ??? What is that?
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John Poff
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Re: Where to get LINUX for home?

I was wrong. I thought the professional version had a few extra packages that the home version didn't have [I seem to remember that from some earlier versions], but it looks like they now come with the same packages. Here is a link to the list of packages:

http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/technical/packages.html

The Linux kernel and all the GNU software that comes with it is open source, so you don't have to worry about the license. The main stipulation is that you post the source code for any changes to make to it. Most of us just load it and run it and never touch the source code so it isn't an issue. The license is the GPL or GNU public license. Here is a link to the GPL posted at the Red Hat site:

http://www.redhat.com/licenses/gpl.html

The 'distro' mentioned previously is a slang name for 'distribution'. Red Hat, Mandrake, etc. each is a distribution. They are all using the same [pretty much I guess] kernel, but they bundle different software packages and tools with it to make a 'distribution'.

JP
Caesar_3
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Re: Where to get LINUX for home?

Hello!

Here is good site for you, you will see
all the distributions and the packages
that came in.
www.distrowatch.com

My flavor version is the one that i compiled
from zero and called it my-linux.

You also can build your linux from zero.

Caesar
AlienRoadShow
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Re: Where to get LINUX for home?

OK - all good links.

Now, from this list of products please indicate the top twenty to concentrate on for LINUX certification or valuable enterprise server administration:

http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/technical/packages.html
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AlienRoadShow
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Re: Where to get LINUX for home?

Caesar:

Got a procedure for building my-linux from zero?
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Balaji N
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Re: Where to get LINUX for home?

hi

if you want to build your system from zero, then have a look at the gentoo distro.

http://www.gentoo.org/

-balaji
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AlienRoadShow
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Re: Where to get LINUX for home?

OK Balaji I think I can do that. In fact, this the best discussion yet.


Now, what about that list? Anybody. List?
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