Squeaky newbie

[Ed Wilts]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 12:17:15PM -0400, Tom McCaffrey wrote:
> Years ago, (maybe three or four?) I purchased RedHat 6.0 but never
> installed it.

More than four... Red Hat Linux 6.0 was released in 1999 I think.  I
*strongly* recommend you give up on 6.0.  It's old and most of us have
either forgotten 6.0-specific things or haven't worked with releases
that old.
 
> Today I decided to give it a shot and did manage to install it (server
> version) and got it to boot up and even logged in successfully as
> root.  But.. this is all I've done. Don't know where to go from this
> point and the manuals I got with the program are... well... manuals.
> What I am wondering is if anyone knows where I might find a tutorial
> that will skip all the blather and enlighten me as to how to set this
> thing up - with security.

For starters, you can not make a Red Hat Linux 6.0 secure.  There are
known vulnerabilities in the software that have never been fixed.  For a
secure environment, you will need to run a newer version of Linux.

For a server, you've got enough CPU, memory, and disk to run a newer
version - I'd recommend that if you want a free operating system without
support that you look at the Fedora releases (http://fedora.redhat.com).

You then need to decide what you actually want this system to do for
you.  There are a lot of tutorials online (and Fedora documentation is
online on Red Hat's web site) but if you can tell people what you need,
we might be able to point you in the right place.

Cheers,
        .../Ed
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Ed Wilts, RHCE
Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org
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