[WEB4LIB] Advice on Linux

[Thomas Bennett]

  In the late 80's I began with a Slackware version .98 of Linux.  Since
then I have installed and tried out Caldera, Mandrake, Turbolinux, and
Redhat.  I haven't tried Debian but there is a strong loyal following to
that distribiution.  I also haven't tried Conectiva Linux.  Now we come to a
time where you can consider United Linux
(
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2868859,00.html 
), Redhat, Debian, and maybe even Lindows.

  Lindows looks like it is working more toward the desktop market rather
than the server market. At LindowsOS ( http://www.lindows.com ), their goal
is to develop a Linux OS which will seamlessly allow you to install MS
Windows programs and Linux prgrams as easy as possible even for the novice
user.  They are making use of Wine and I think trying to go beyond that.  I
installed the newest release yesterday on a Dell Optiplex GX1 and it took a
full 6 minutes to install and even my wheel mouse works.  Another feature is
Click-N-Run, this basically lets you choose a software category which links
to the Lindows "Warehouse" and click on a program which then installs and is
ready to run. Right now they are only distrbuting their beta/pre-release
products to "Lindows Insiders" for a membership fee of about $100.00USD.
This includes recieving their first production release when it is ready.

As far as server Linux distributions, I am sold on Redhat. There is a lot of
support out there for Redhat.

Thomas

PS.  Thanks to Bill Barnes and Aaron Dobbs for help on my Postgresql
problem.  To make a long story short, I installed RHL 6.1 on a PC,
Postgresql 6.5 and copied the "base" directory form the upgrade server to CD
and then copied that to the 6.5 db "base" directory.  Dumpall had errors
when I went to restore, and had to dump each db, delete the old db off the
upgraded server and restore all the dbs to the upgraded server.  Its working
now.


-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Charlie Irwin
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 12:59 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Advice on Linux


I'm thinking of trying Linux on my home machine. My thought is to add a hard
drive to my machine and run it "dual-boot". Does anyone have any
ideas/suggestions as to what favor Linux (ie Red-Hat, Mandrake, etc.) or
tips, hints, etc? Since this is probably not really a list discussion,
please contact me directly at cirwin at theworld.com.

Thanks in advance,

Charlie Irwin