Re: Thanks for you help and Which Linux is best?

[sgelliot@xxxxxxx]

there is no such thing as "the best version" of linux. everyone has things
they look for, and each distro has its good and bad points.
personally, i suggest trying a few different distros and seeing which ones
you like best.
as for automounting, take a look at your /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab files,
the format is straight forward, and since you got the command line mount
to work, you should have no problems with this.

-Scott

> Hello all,
>
>
>
> Thanks for your help with mounting windows shares and finding a gigabit
> NIC
> card. It turns out that NetGear GA311 Gigabit NICs are supported by Redhat
> Enterprise Linux v3.1. I was able to access Windows shares via
> smb://windows_machine/share_name inside Konquerer and Nautilus. I was also
> able to mount the shares via mount -t smb . . . in xterm. Now I just have
> to
> figure out how to make the computer automatically mount the shares on boot
> up or at least login. (I'm guessing there is a shell script file executed
> on
> boot up or login.)
>
>
>
> Say, is there any consensus on what "brand" or distribution of Linux is
> best
> for the uninitiated (me) trying to get a cluster up and going? I've seen
> Debian and Redhat so far. I've heard one Linux enthusiast say Debian
> rules.
> You have to know what you are doing, but you can do it. Plus it's free!
> But
> I couldn't see how to update it or download security patches or new
> packages
> let alone install them.
>
>
>
> On the other hand, Redhat Enterprise Linux costs money, but it's cheap for
> students. (It's only $25 for the download Desktop version or $50 for the
> download AS server version for academic subscriptions off of Redhat.com.)
> It
> comes with a nice automatic update feature and a year's worth of updates
> and
> tech support. I suppose there are more limits to it than Debian has. It at
> least feels more MS Windowsy (a byword to some in the Linux community) in
> that you install it and run it and it does a lot of the configuration and
> controls itself.
>
>
>
> Is it reasonable to think that I could "ease" into the Linux world by
> starting with Redhat and eventually going to Debian?
>
>
>
> Jacob Fugal
>
> jpfugal@xxxxxxx
>
>