23 messages in com.mysql.lists.mysqlRe: Recommended Linux distribution| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Fredrick Bartlett | 12 Jan 2000 07:52 | |
| sin...@mysql.com | 12 Jan 2000 08:04 | |
| Ondrej Sury | 12 Jan 2000 11:06 | |
| Christopher E. Brown | 12 Jan 2000 17:50 | |
| Sharada Bindiganavale | 12 Jan 2000 18:17 | |
| Sasha Pachev | 13 Jan 2000 07:49 | |
| Fredrick Bartlett | 13 Jan 2000 08:10 | |
| Josh Rasey | 13 Jan 2000 08:55 | |
| Ed Carp | 13 Jan 2000 09:51 | |
| Fredrick Bartlett | 13 Jan 2000 11:03 | |
| Paul D. Smith | 13 Jan 2000 12:20 | |
| Chris Abraham | 13 Jan 2000 13:00 | |
| Sasha Pachev | 13 Jan 2000 13:05 | |
| Ed Carp | 13 Jan 2000 13:07 | |
| Benjamin Pflugmann | 13 Jan 2000 13:20 | |
| Thalia L. Hooker | 14 Jan 2000 02:23 | |
| Christopher E. Brown | 14 Jan 2000 03:14 | |
| Christopher E. Brown | 14 Jan 2000 03:22 | |
| Van | 14 Jan 2000 05:39 | |
| Jan Dvorak | 14 Jan 2000 07:31 | |
| Sasha Pachev | 14 Jan 2000 08:48 | |
| Blain Nelson | 14 Jan 2000 08:55 | |
| William R. Mattil | 14 Jan 2000 09:19 |
| Subject: | Re: Recommended Linux distribution |
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| From: | Jan Dvorak (jan....@veda.cz) |
| Date: | 01/14/2000 07:31:43 AM |
| List: | com.mysql.lists.mysql |
Van wrote:
After watching the various diatribes on the variants of Linux distributions, I might take a "let's try two approach" and leave the MySQL on the NT side of the world for a couple weeks while getting your proverbial feet wet.
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I'd play with this new toy and learn it's modules and give yourself a couple weeks to `rm *` yourself into a fresh install, or some other faux pas, and, then make the switch.
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Regardless, Fredrick, welcome aboard.
Van
I wholeheartedly agree. Before you do the switch in the production machine, you should get acquainted with the new environment.
You'll need: * Persistence; * A person to learn from; * Time; * A machine to play with in that order of importance.
Linux users are found almost anywhere on the planet, at least one of them will be kind enough to share his/her knowledge and skills with you, I'm confident.
It also doesn't hurt if you get yourself an introductory book, such as 'Running Linux' by Matt Welsh & Lar Kaufman. However, a person you can ask silly questions is just invaluable.
Ease off, learning something new takes a different state of mind from the usual work-horse mode (no pun intended).
It doesn't matter too much which distribution you choose for the first experiments. You can switch later on, when you at least know what the various features feel like.
Who am I to say such things? I've been using Linux since 1993, but that's not important. What counts, IMHO, is that I've given a similar advice to quite a bunch of people (and installed Linux for them and kept answering their questions) and almost all of them use Linux today.
-- Jan Dvorak jan....@veda.cz