On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 17:38, Roy <linuxcanuck@gmail.com> wrote:
> Redhat is MEANT for servers by the companies own admission. They have
> expressly stated that they do intend to get into the desktop market. Fedora
> is their desktop initiative. As you deviate from what Redhat is intended
> then you are distorting their mission and the Linux environment. Redhat does
> lots of things differently from other distributions and many Linux skills
> are not transferable directly to Redhat because Redhat likes it that way.
> Their money is made in support and training. These differences would only
> confuse others.
Indeed. However there are two different things here... if one is
looking to "just learn Linux" then the correct answer is to just pick
a distro and go, then switch when you decide the one you chose isn't
what you need or want. If one is looking to learn for career
purposes, then one needs to learn Red Hat, or SuSE, or Ubuntu
(becoming big in the desktop/laptop/mobile world).
FWIW, Red Hat WAS in the desktop market, realized the real money was
in Enterprise, and also realized that enough of their customers were
running RHEL as desktop OSs (employees at RH run RHEL and Fedora as
their desktop OS) that they could make a new revenue stream w/
enterprise desktops.
There is also no real magic difference between the two either. The
only difference is package selection. Beyond that, RHEL on the Server
is the same as RHEL on the desktop or laptop. As I said, I've run
RHEL for years as a desktop OS.
> My point was that any discussion of servers here would be way over the head
> of most newbies who come here for desktop help. Sure you can help him learn
> Redhat here, but there are better places because you are more likely to find
> like minded individuals there. You could argue that Linux newbies would
> include Redhat, but his question wasn't specific, but rather on how to learn
> Redhat. So I pointed him in another direction. I don't see that any harm was
> done as he can still ask questions here if he has something specific.
Not necessarily. There are also Linux newbies that are picking this
up because their companies are switching the historically Unix or
Windows based servers over to Linux. OR, they're considering doing
so, and testing the waters, and end up in places like this as well.
Just as there are also total newbies who are just looking to learn
something other than Windows.
But this isn't the Total_Linux_Newbies group, it's just Newbies. And
there have been some decidedly NON-Newbie discussions on this list in
the past, and will continue to be in the future, anyway.
> I notice that you did not answer his query but questioned my answer. I find
> that peculiar. Are we nitpicking?
Then you didn't read far enough...
>> For absolute Newbies, however, I do usually recommend Ubuntu, but
>> CentOS runs just as well.
Maybe not a terribly specific answer, but his question was also not
terribly specific, and I gave him at least two starting points to
google and star exploring: CentOS and Ubuntu.
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