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is it possible to install red hat on a duron/socket A motherboard at all do i need version 7.0? i dont really wanna have to go with a pentium of celeron architecture. bit of a bitch it being made by intel but i just wonderin none the less. whats a good AMD setup for it if it will work. i dont want anything really expensive stuff i want a mid range pc cos i cant really afford a funky bells and whistles one
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(semi-sarcasm)please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't a Duron x86 compatible?...(/semi-sarcasm) yeah, that's what I thought...

Red hat, slackware, debian, OpenBSD, anything that can run on any x86 core will run on a Duron. Trust me...

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I have a Duron 800 (oc'ed to ~900) that cost me ๙. I found it from pricewatch.com. I also got this sweet-ass motherboard with a built in raid controller (Abit KT7-RAID). It's all running slackware-current, but it should be able to run redhat without any problems. I used to run mandrake on it, which is based on redhad.

Also, you should try something other than redhat 7.0. It's really buggy, and has some major problems. Try running Mandrake, which is really easy to use and has tons of programs, slackware, my personal favorite, best for learning how linux works, or even try using an older version of redhat such as 6.2. They are much less buggy.

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Red Hat sucks ass. My own personal favorite is Slackware. It doesn't have all the goody-two-shoes bullshit like auto hardware detection (although the net.i kernel picks up most NICs) or I'm-scared-of-computers X configuration, but it's rock solid.

And unlike Redhat, it sticks to the standard Unix layout of config files, etc. I tried to edit RedHat's messy-as-fuck config files once and gave up - blech.

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Well, I like redhat because of the support. Not from Red Hat but from other companies. SGI, Sun, HP, Gateway, Dell, Oracle, VA, ect. The list goes on. The only other really well supported disto is Suse, and they are very Red Hat like.

I do prefere Suse for personal use, but I still choose Red Hat because of work. I do hate what they did with the beta version of the glibc in 7.0, that is why I run 6.2. I compile my own kerenls anyway, so I really don't give a shit what RedHat does.

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So, what would ya'll recommend for me for a disto? I'm extensively knowledgeable of Windows (inside and out), I can do programming, I am pretty fluent in DOS. I've tried using the Mandrake Distro (7.1), but it just turned out to be a mess and really turned me off to Lunix.

My *nix experience is what I've read from slashdot and some minor programming during school. I know conceptually what's happening in Lunix. I'm not a big fan of command lines, I don't really want to learn that much about Lunix, but I'd like to play with a stable system that would be a network server and file server. I'd like power over it, but I'm not interested in pulling my hair out.

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PostIcon Posted on: Feb. 07 2001,18:25 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
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So, what would ya'll recommend for me for a disto? I'm extensively knowledgeable of Windows (inside and out), I can do programming, I am pretty fluent in DOS. I've tried using the Mandrake Distro (7.1), but it just turned out to be a mess and really turned me off to Lunix.

Sounds like almost the exact same experience I had before I tried Linux, and Red Hat 6.2 was definately a great OS for me and my level. There is a LOT of help on the web, and almost everything i've installed has had a red hat rpm available. Thats what made everything pretty easy. I haven't really tried any other distros except for FreeBSD, and that was a horrible experience.
just my .02 though

And yes it runs on my Duron/Kt-7 raid setup.

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Umm... FreeBSD is *not* a Linux... it's a BSD. Very, very, very different... Really, if you want a good BSD, go with OpenBSD anyway.

Distro wise, if you're new to linux I recommend Mandrake. Debian's pretty nice, also, but is a little more "advanced". There's no such thing as "run this distro for workstations and this one for servers" crap. Any distro can become a good system with the right admin and the right knowledge. Running Linux doesn't make you l33t, either... running Slackware with Tripwire, SATAN, a every-ten-minutes cron setting for slackUp, the latest Apache version (with PHP, MySQL, mod_perl, and all that other good stuff), and basicly having the most macked out system makes you l33t. It pushes you passed 31337... shit, you might as well be 31338

Yeah... and red hat sucks. I live really close to Durham (where they're based), and ran it for a little bit, but it sucks. Mandrake's cool. I'd say stay away from the profitting distro's, though. Slackware or Debian are you best bets for a good linux box.

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I have a Duron 800 (oc'ed to ~900) that cost me ๙. I found it from pricewatch.com. I also got this sweet-ass motherboard with a built in raid controller (Abit KT7-RAIDGood Luck
hmm strage thats exactly the setup i was thinking of. and also i was gonna use an older version as i konw 7.0 sux plus i am way a newbie to linux so i aint gonna bother fuckin ma system over and going mental( even more mental i should say)

but also which is better: i read its better to run (if you're gonna dual boot to windows) linux off a second hard disk altogether rather than on 1 partitioned drive. is it better whats the pros and cons? and also

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Really, if you want a good BSD, go with OpenBSD anyway.

Freebsd is the faster of the bsd's, though OpenBSD does have a nice setup (not full of usless programs you'll never use), it's only about 90MB to download, as for Linux, I currently run Slackware, it's a solid distro. It's better to learn how to config/setup linux right then to have some shitty distro do it for you


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