[PLUG] Class and.or tutoring in Red Hat 9

[Carla Schroder]

On Sunday 15 June 2003 5:59 pm, Ed Sawicki wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:57, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > Red Hat has a habit of changing things with every release, so you really
> > want the manuals for your specific release.
>
> Amen on that. Has Red Hat ever used the same window manager
> for more than two consecutive releases?
> Few things are more worthless than old Red Hat manuals.
>
> How can newbies learn Linux when the system is changing
> all the time?
> Much of what you learn today will be different tomorrow.

I see Red Hat as the bleeding-edge Linux, the one that pushes development 
forward. If it weren't for Red Hat, I think a lot of things would not have 
advanced as quickly or as far as they have- like RPM, Unicode support, Xfree, 
gcc, and other stuff I forget now. Every distro does things its own way- 
Mandrake, Slack, SuSE, Debian, Gentoo, etc- there is no "universal Linux". 
This is the great strength of Linux, though it can be a bit daunting when 
you're getting started.

Remember also Red Hat funds a considerable amount of Linux development. Kernel 
hackers gotta eat too! I think their low-end/free-download releases are more 
for testing new things, and to get people to use them. Their high-end server 
products are more stable and consistent, and obviously are the real 
revenue-generators for the company.

As others have pointed out in this thread, there are no bad Linuxes, just 
different ones.

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