Thanks for the advice, with luck I'll install everything this weekend. I currently have access to the Linux distributions of SuZe, RedHat, Mandrake and Devian. (I have them on CD's) I'll be bugging since Monday. Again Thanks. C ya -----Original Message----- From: J.Francois [mailto:frenchie@magusnet.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 7:13 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Distro Wars (was Certifications - Thoughts?) If you are going to go the cheapbytes route, grab a BSD or two and try those out as well. Might as well see how the other half lives :) On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:59:58PM -0500, George Toft wrote: > I think Carl's advice is the best I've ever seen - use what > your friends use. If they don't use Linux, I offer this > advice: > 1. Head on over to cheapbytes.com and buy the $4.99 > cd for Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE, Debian, and Slackware. [snipped] > Have fun - try them all. Worst case: you reformat and > remember what you learned. > [snipped] -- Jean Francois - JLF "The BSD Heretic" Sends... "Tell them we are not Gods, but SysAdmins, which is the next best thing." The truth about IT: http://www.winface.com/blurb.html Got Certs?: http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=1214021 ________________________________________________ See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss