An Intro to Linux Distros and Live CDs

Linuxaria ^ | 23 October 2011 | linuxari

[Steely Tom]

That what happens when you partner with Microsoft. :)

Thanks for the clue! Makes sense in so many ways. I had no idea.

[21stCenturion]

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[expat_panama]

...there aren’t any “Linux Stores”. Money’s just not there...

There is a lot of money, it's just not in stores.  A few days ago I bought Red Hat (RHT) and it's already made me $800 richer.  It's hard for most people to understand where technology has gone and how a $9B S&P500 company make money giving away software.  It does.

[markman46]

I use PCLinuxos it works great with just about everything i throw at it

www.pclinuxos.com

[goldstategop]

There are three main categories: Debian-based (Ubuntu and variants), RPM-based (Mandriva and variants and Slackware-based (Gentoo and variants). Every Linux distro will have a GUI interface layered on top of the X Windows system: GNOME, KDE, XFCE, and LXDE and assorted other window managers. The first four are DE’s. Linux uses a unified package manager to manage and handle updates for both the system as a whole and for individual packages. There are different command-line package managers and GUI front-ends for them like Synaptic and YAST. Linux’s greatest asset is its rock-solid stability and computing ease of use. That explains why its been around so long and offers an amazing variety of distros to cater to every interest and serve every possible need.

We’ll see what its going to be like for it when the next twenty years come around.

[usconservative]

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is used in most larger organizations. Oracle's 'Unbreakable' Linux (which is really a customized version of RHEL) is starting to gain alot of traction mostly due to Oracle's commitment to a monitoring environment that will manage the entire Oracle HTTP Stack (Apache/OracleWebLogic/Oracle DBMS).

You're not going to go wrong picking up and learning Red Hat Linux if you're going to be looking for a job supporting Linux.