Subj : Re: Linux Distribution
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Unknown
Date : Sat Sep 18 2004 10:02 pm

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:26:10 -0500, Patrick McDonnell wrote:

> Gator wrote:
> 
>> I have been playing around with Red Hat and Mandrake (all different
>> releases) for about 1 year now. I just got a CD set of a bunch on Linux
>> Distributions (Mandrake 10, Fedora 1, Debian 3.0 r2, Slackware 9.1,
>> Yoper1.2, Gentoo 1.4_rc4, FreeBSD 5.2.1, and Vector Linux 4.0) as a
>> present. I have a P3 600Mhz laptop with RAM and a 12 GB HDD. I am
>> going to begin studying for my Linux+ Certification and I want some
>> opinions on which distro would be the best to use.
>> Any help would be great.
>> Phil
> 
> I'm always amazed at the number of these questions which pop up.  My answer
> usually is, "whichever one you like best."  I'd say try a couple out, and
> see which one/s you like best.  Especially, if you already have the CD's. 
> Its also worth noting that many of the versions you have listed above are> 
outdated - when making your decision, I recommend using the latest stable
> version of the distros.  My point is, pick the distro that you feel most
> comfortable with.  (Also, FreeBSD is not Linux, but you already knew
> that.)

You guys seemed to have missed the key part of his question:

>> I am going to begin studying for my Linux+ Certification and I want
>> some opinions on which distro would be the best to use.

He wanted to know whats the best to use when studying for the Linux+
certification. If it's going to be asking you questions about rpms then
obviously Debian and Slack are not going to be good choices. Also if it
asks questions based on the LSB then using an LSB compliant distro would
make sense. Also something with non-standard init like Slack probably
isn't going to prepare you that well. I don't know what kind of
stuff they actually ask on the Linux+ since it seems like most
certifications are a waste. The only thing employers really care about is
experience. That and a degree in something could help. It doesn't even
matter if it's CS related they just like to know you have some kind of
education. Certifications aren't really very useful as far as Linux jobs
go.

Anyways just like the saying goes "No one ever got fired for going with
IBM" you can also probably assume that "No ones resume ever got thrown out
for knowing Redhat". Where as if your resume shows you mainly run
UltraLeetObscureLinux you will probably end up in the circular file. No
matter how great UltraLeetObscureLinux truly is HR is going to look at it
and say "That's nice but we run Redhat".

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