Time to get under the brim... (Redhat 7)

Member Name: nathanr

Product:	Redhat 7
Date:	25/11/01 (69 review reads)
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Advantages: Fast., Great for building web applications., Can be highly configurable.

Disadvantages: Not beginner friendly., Needs more development.

Linux is a relatively new venture for me and after seeing RedHat on a website I thought I would try it, after all Linux is Linux. I first tried it out a few months ago but instantly uninstalled it after finding out that my modem would not work with it. After all what can you do with a product that is highly web orientated when you don't have a modem?

After uninstalling it I then became interested in what Linux can actually do for me. I read countless documents on the internet and as I read more, the more interested I got in it.

Second try. I had got a new modem which was compatible (after installing the right software) and I got my first real taste for RedHat Linux. It was very different to the Windows I was used to but I kind of liked it. I became obsessed with downloading new programs for it (after all most of them are free). Then I came across my second problem. You are very lucky when a program installs okay first time round. I spent hours searching newsgroups and mailing lists to find answers to what was going wrong during installation. When everything is working okay and you have finally fixed the problem that was preventing you installing a small program Linux is absolutely brilliant (especially for writing web applications). I first ventured into Linux because of my new venture of learning Perl. It has not only helped me to learn Perl but also how to configure and administer web servers.

RedHat Linux is a great OS if you?re going to be using it for writing web applications or running web servers. I would not recommend it for casual home users because it is just not suited for people using it for that purpose. If however you are interested in how web servers and the web works and have a huge amount of determination to continue even when nothing will work then I would definitely recommend it. It could do with ironing out a few of the problems but still, it is relatively young in its life anyway. After all what have you got to lo
se. It?s free.

give it a try.

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