[Lias] Linux quick start

[Henry Yong]

Have you tried Xandros? I find it stable and easy to use. It is based on 
debian. There is an open circulation edition free for download at 
xandros.com website. You can email me off-list, I can send you a copy.

Regards,
Henry Yong
AKA Technology
www.akatech.com.au/xandros

Simon Bryan wrote:

>I am finding the latest versions of Fedora Core very good for the Linux
>dumbies like me.
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>On Mon, October 25, 2004 5:00 pm, Paul Gear said:
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>>>By the way, do you know of any quick-start type linux workshops in the
>>>area? I want to start running some of this stuff at home, have tried but
>>>only ever get 80% through setting it up correctly. Eg mail server,
>>>samba, apache in a LAMP setup etc.
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>>I can't recommend anything in particular, but occasionally HUMBUG run
>>Linux install-fests, where they help people get up & running.  That
>>might be of benefit to you.
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>>>I don't find the graphic tools very
>>>a)Reliable b)functional c)understandable.
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>>I agree - however, i've never let it concern me because i nearly
>>always prefer the command line.
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>>Probably the best graphical admin tool i've seen so far is webmin,
>>since its plugin architecture allows nearly anything to be set up, and
>>it's web-based, so anyone with a standard Windows box can work it,
>>whereas most of the other ones i've seen (e.g. SuSE YAST, Red Hat
>>config tools) require X.
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>>>The distributions I have tried
>>>so far are SUSE 8.1 Pro and Mandrake 10 (full version).
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>>I don't think you're going to get much admin tool joy out of the
>>mainstream distributions.  If you've got a specific task in mind
>>(especially when it comes to "appliance" tasks like firewalls), then a
>>specifically targetted distribution like SME, Censornet, or similar
>>might do the job.  If you're looking for a generalist distribution,
>>waiting for Novell to polish up SLES a bit more might be the best bet.
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>>Sorry not to be much help.  :-)  Can anyone on LIAS shed some more light?
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