new to redhat

[Johan Scheepers]

On 16/11/2010 22:10, Matty Sarro wrote:
> No problem! There are some fedora lists out there along side of the red hat
> list (all of them can be found here:
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/). Core features should be
> applicable to both, however any of the fringe features in fedora would be
> best served by a fedora list. The main fedora mailing list is fedora-list.
> If you decide to dabble with centOS too, basically all of the features
> should be the same as mainstream RH.
>
> Hopes that helps.
> -Matty
>
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Johan Scheepers<johansche at telkomsa.net>wrote:
>
>    
>> On 16/11/2010 21:13, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> Matty Sarro wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Welcome! RH9 is a touch old, you may want to look into getting a newer
>>>> version of A) centOS or B) fedora. Cent is free (as in beer and speech)
>>>> and is basically the same thing as RH minus the brandings and support.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Fedora
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>>> is actually created by red hat as their test bed for new features, so
>>>> when
>>>> the features make it into Red Hat enterprise they can have a few years of
>>>> vetting by the community to ensure that they're robust and mature.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Yeah, I went up from RH9 (shrike) about 4 years ago. Fedora... to call a
>>> spade a spade, fedora is bleeding edge, not leading edge. 14 beta *seems*
>>> to be working ok on the one box I've put it on, but I *HATED* FC13 - same
>>> workstation, all kindsa problems. And it crashed with kernel panics
>>> several times in the 3-4 months it was on it.
>>>
>>>        mark
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> 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
>>
>>
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Thanks Matty.
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Johan