Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro  Oct 29th, 2006 |
| Replies: 38 Views: 8,061 Not to sound harsh, but I am still amazed at how many folks-even technical people who *should* know better-who do not back up their data and systems! This is computing 101. And there's no excuse.... |
| Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Aug 20th, 2006 |
| Replies: 38 Views: 8,061 EISA...wow, I still have my old Prosigna and Proliant systems that are EISA based, but I haven't tried to install anything on them in several years so I feel for you but you don't *have* to use... |
| Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Aug 16th, 2006 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 2,522 I'm not sure being like Windows is a good thing at all so anything that tries to emulate it is not what I would consider a good thing, but that's my take on OSes. I think you can get lost in all the... |
| Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Aug 14th, 2006 |
| Replies: 38 Views: 8,061 "Lol no "proliant linux" would imply it would run on a compaq prolinat server which is kinda hard to configure and hates linux."
Not to give others the wrong impression about Proliant servers and... |
| Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Aug 14th, 2006 |
| Replies: 15 Views: 3,657 If you the most painless way to go about it, go to vmware.com, download the free VMware Server. Install on your Windows system. Choose whichever distro you want or pick several to try. Create a... |
| Forum: Getting Started and Choosing a Distro Aug 14th, 2006 |
| Replies: 5 Views: 2,522 I agree with joeprogrammer, any Linux will do. Since I live and work in the Red Hat world, and since Red Hat is an industry standard, many times I recommend a free binary compatible RHEL version such... |
