Redhat 7

Dunno if this is the right place or not for this - maybe we should have a SAMBA section under Linux? BEWARE - this is Techy McTech from Techtown shit. It's only worth reading if you actually want to share files between a Linux box and Windows. Otherwise it will just bore the arse off you. Sorry sorry sorry. I'm such a sad bugger. Got your Linux/UNIX box up and running? Got your network all slicked up and ready to roll? Want to share files with your Windows machines?? You need SAMBA mate, that's what you need. And SAMBA stands for? Such A Mess, it's Bloody Awful. Actually SAMBA itself is OK; it's the ...

AAARGH!!! UNCLE BILL IS STRANGLING ME! Hot on the heels of my Windows XP Pro opinion, you may well be wondering what I'm doing writing about a completely different operating system (OS). Well, it's partly to do with how my PC hardware is configured. I have a pair of 40 gigabyte hard-drives, one acting as a full backup to the other - after all, wouldn't want to lose all those opinions I've written, now would I? I do also carry out a less frequent backup to CD-R, but that's another story. Anyway, my drives are in removable drawers called caddies. This makes it very easy to slot in another drive at a moment's notice. This ...

RedHat 7.0 is "nearly" ideal if you have never used Linux before, the main reasons being that so many companies (particularly in the UK and USA) treat "RedHat" as being the Linux standard. Whether that is good or bad for GNU/Linux as a whole is debateable, but it is a good reason to start off with RedHat if you are not too familiar with Linux yet. Many Linux professionals choose RedHat over the other distributions also as they find it more stable than distributions like Debian. (Debian is however great if you are a developer, you may like to contribute to it). RedHat is freely available as a download over the Internet, if you have a good and ...