[Cialug] Which Distro is best?

[Barry Von Ahsen]

as of a couple of years ago, the officially supported distro for ISU is 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) - they had a site license for the 
full-fledged version.  If you want to stick to that route, you can check 
out CentOS, which is the free-as-in-beer version of RHEL, or you can use 
Fedora, which is the RHEL proving ground

I would guess that most of ISU's documentation is going to be Red 
Hat-centric, so if you want the easiest time connecting to the 
university services (email, AFS, hesiod/kerberos, etc), I'd stick to the 
Red Hat flavors, but the tools can be used on any distro, once you know 
the basics

you may also want to check out the Ames Free Unix Group (amesfug.org) - 
  they're pretty dormant, but a lot of the ISU network/sysadmin guys are 
on that list (several are here on cialug too)

-barry (adding my confusion points :)




Nick Johnson wrote:
> Iowa State
> 
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Nick Johnson <mainbass64 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> I am going into college to be a programmer/tech guy.
>> Which college are you going to?
>>
>> Jeff
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