linuxgeek: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: red hat

--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "davyp" <davidp@...> wrote:
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In a corporate environment, yes. For personal use or someone on a
budget, no. What you get with Red Hat is not so much the OS as the
support. For an individual or those on a budget, you would probably
pick the lowest level of support which frankly is not much. You can
have the same thing by downloading FREE CentOS.

Now with that out of the way, you can get more information from this
group by asking a more specific question or at least giving more
information. Example, "I want to set up a Linux box as a server so
I can learn administration or shell scripting" or "I want to set up
a Linux box as a desktop/laptop machine." Those specifics really
lead to different responses. Also, some knowledge of your hardware
might help. For example if your RAM is maxed at 1 GB, I would never
recommend CentOS/Redhat or Suse. That does not mean these distros
are bad, just that they run much more acceptably with more RAM.

Loyal