[Cialug] Which Distro is best?

[Nick Johnson]

hey guys, i downloaded wubi, and did the install and everything went fine.
then when i tried to boot it, it came up and loaded then it was
unresponsive. My monitor went to standby because there was no signal coming
from the computer. My hard drive light was not flashing at all and there was
absolutely nothing going on. Reinstall? Different distro? or what?

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Barry Von Ahsen <barry at vonahsen.com> wrote:

> 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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