Welcome to the Athlon Linux Center

[Warren Togami]

Welcome AMDMB.com's Athlon Linux Center!

Here at AMDMB we use Red Hat Linux for the main web and database server, in addition to Linux kernel compliation benchmarks in several of our recent reviews. We hope to expand our future Linux coverage with more Linux news, technical writing, software reviews, and more extensive Linux benchmarks in our normal hardware reviews.

In this forum you can ask questions and get answers about any Linux issue, especially relating to AMD hardware.

Enjoy!

[squito]

Cool ... was thinking about giving Red Hat a go ... love it when a plan comes together ...

[ou812]

1.333GHz Tbird
Epox 8K7A
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I was hoping for a new title specifically for Linux.

I understand why the main topic is Red Hat. However, is it possible that Mandrake Linux 8.1 is poised for the desktop moreso than Red Hat ? I have read on both Red Hat and Mandrake 8.1. It seems to me that Mandrake 8.1 is aimed at the newcomer to Linux. An article suggests that Mandrake 8.1 is challenging Windows XP and the Mac OS.

I certainly believe that many people who were considering Windwos XP may now be considering Linux, because of the BS the M$ has with activation, etc.

I am awaiting Mandrake 8.1. I have 8.0 However, I would like to know more about Red Hat.

But, I sincerely believe that this site should be as non-distrobution specific as possible. And just deal with Linux in general. Linux looks to be a fine OS.

I am hoping this forum will deal with the simple topics of Linux.
Simple topics for Linux newbies like myself.

GREAT IDEA !!!!!!!!!

ou812

[Warren Togami]

Yes, this is not supposed to be an only Red Hat Linux forum. I myself use Red Hat and Mandrake on all my machines, but there are a few other folks here that use Slackware, SuSE or Debian. Hopefully between us we should be able to help and answer all questions about all distributions.

[OldFrog]

Originally posted by Warren Togami
Yes, this is not supposed to be an only Red Hat Linux forum. I myself use Red Hat and Mandrake on all my machines, but there are a few other folks here that use Slackware, SuSE or Debian. Hopefully between us we should be able to help and answer all questions about all distributions.

Kewwwwll, a brand new forum for us who bear less and less "THE OTHER OS"

Thanks a lot to think of all different distros. We all will share a lot questions and answers (I hope ), I think

[SloNoMo]

maybe [ someday ] I'll do something about the Linux tonnage/ m^3 of L-stuff that I've got laying around here...

[ I'll try not to whine ]..

[OldFrog]

Originally posted by SloNoMo
maybe [ someday ] I'll do something about the Linux tonnage/ m^3 of L-stuff that I've got laying around here...

[ I'll try not to whine ]..

But you still can wine

[JungleMan]

How did Warren get to be an administrator with only 60 posts?

Nice forum..I have no use for it as of now but if I decide to install Linux as a dual boot to play around with, I'll definitely check here.

[OldFrog]

Warren won't want to discuss much that. Just know he is a part of many projects and teams in the Linux world, and technically, he is the one who makes this site work on a Linux RedHat rig.

Give a 2d try to linux. It's no good to remain on bad memories.
And all forums here are worth the look.

[Dok]

Perfect timing! Glad there is a Linux forum on this site now. I have used Linux off and on over the years but now is the time to actually get some servers moved onto Linux. I just don't buy into the whole forrest and trees active directory and empty every pocket goings on with the other server os. A couple will have to stay MS but the majority can run Linux. I'm looking forward to the learning curve!

[mimik]

redhat webserver/database .., icky

[Warren Togami]

What's wrong with Red Hat for web server and database?

You're saying that Microsoft IIS and MS SQL server is any less icky?

[mimik]

no ms = more icky , just saying redhat isnt the best choice for a webserver and database , though i havent used redhat in a long time

[Warren Togami]

I'd argue that Red Hat is actually is a very good choice for server tasks, because of their excellent Quality Assurance testing on all kernel and server packages. They ensure that it will be stable, and their customers can demand fixes if it is not stable. This is the kind of corporate support that businesses find very attractive, and they pay the money for that kind of quality.

As an open source product, free-loaders like me get to use their QA tested packages for free. Well, I'm a little bit better than that, and I contribute to Red Hat beta and rawhide package testing, reporting bugs and suggesting fixes in their Bugzilla. I successfully made sure that three Athlon motherboards and one Athlon notebook would be supported out-of-the-box in Red Hat 7.2.

Red Hat is heck of a lot more stable than Mandrake for both a desktop and server platform... but the drawback is less recent packages and spartan choices in packaging.

Red Hat also has a convenient "Windows Update" easy updating program very much like Mandrake's urpmi or Debian's apt-get. However, with Red Hat you are still locked into a much more restrictive package selection.

For most personal stuff I'd deal with Mandrake bugs and patch appropriately when they occur, but Red Hat is much more reliable for mission critical stuff. I can almost assume that even Red Jat
s Rawhide TEST packages will be reasonably stable. I can't make that assumption with Mandrake Cooker and even official releases of the Linux kernel.

[OldFrog]

Mandrake Cooker is everything but secure. Based on its feedback are built the new official distros.

I'd trust more MandrakeFreqs, which are intermediate upgrades to the current distro, with enhanced packages like new Xfree, newKDE, New Samba, New Kernel version.

I know when I use a cooker pack, it may mess all my installation. It's not intended to upgrade seriously, only test some new stuff or new installation wizard for next distro.

I have tested many packages which were never integrated in official CDs, not even in MandrakeFreqs, even when they seemed (for my own use) stable.

The actual MandrakeFreq is #3 and is an extent to ver 8.0. Its ben released in August.