new to redhat

[Johan Scheepers]

On 16/11/2010 21:01, Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> Hi Johan,
>
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 08:28:37PM +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote:
>    
>> Good day,
>>
>> I have ordered some RH 9 cd's.
>>      
> Umm, why?  RH 9 is extremely antique and no longer supported.  That
> means you can't get any security (or any other) updates for it and
> will be vulnerable to crackers.  Furthermore, if you machine is very
> recent, it may not support the hardware very well.
>
>    
>> Done some home work on google.
>> Some knowledge of debian squeeze and opensuse 11.3.
>>      
> I've no experience with either of those.
>
>    
>> Being a pensionar I do have the time to fiddle around with different
>> distros.
>> May need some assistance along the redhat way.
>>      
> If you want to mess around with Red-Hat-ish distros, you want either
> Fedora (version 14 is just out)<http://fedoraproject.org/>  or CentOS
> (v5.5 is current, and v6 will be out soon)<http://www.centos.org/>.
> Fedora is the cutting edge trial area for what will become a real Red
> Hat release.  CentOS is the free variant of the current Red Hat, and
> is nearly exactly like RH except for the branding and (of course)
> support.
>
> If you are new to Linux, especially if coming from Windoze, you might
> want to consider Ubuntu<http://www.ubuntu.com/>  which is a derivative
> of Debian, but is geared more for the Windoze escapee.  It has more
> recent stuff than CentOS, but more stable, and for the most part, Just
> Works.
>
> All three distros mentioned can be set up to auto-update, so that you
> always have the latest and most secure stuff.
>
>    
>> Regards
>> Johan
>>      
>
> Cheers,
>    
Good day,

What can I say. Due to ignorance.

Starting to download Fedora 14 iso for cd.

Should I join a Fedora list or is this correct?

Thanks to all that responded.
Regards
Johan