Id say if you want an easy to install distro, Ubuntu is the way to go.
It has a fairly easy install interface and has project utopia installed.
The only caveat is that it seems to not want to install on a few
computers, when the install process is starting it will say there is no
cdrom. Though the only computers i have seen that on were older P3
machines. Other than that little problem, it is a great distro w/ all
the power of Debian.
Hope it helps,
Michael Moran
http://musicsquared.net
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 10:54 -0500, Jacob Fugal wrote:
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