Yes I understand sites need to have ads in order to survive, but I wonder how much of it is greed. I have run Linuxbeginner.org for 3 years ad free so why start now??? I don't want income I want to help the community. I thought this was what supporting Linux was about.
I dont know if they are still there, I moved to Maine in 95, I lived in Paridise hills just down the road from sweetwater auto where I would also get my mopar stuff. No stuff around here like those places.
Everytime my niece comes home from college I need to clean up her machine, its usally a mess. Trying to get her and others in my family to run Firefox has had a little sucess but getting them to accept change only seems to work when your standing over them. With 2 more heading off to college this year I will soon dread the christmas holiday.
I too live in a small market area where tech jobs are few and far between. The jobs are not in the help wanted ads these days, they cost too much. ( I know, I work for a newspaper.) You need to look beyound the ads, open up the yellow pages and start gathering a list of every company that might have a IT staff and send them resumes. I sent 50 + one week, I had a tech support position 2 weeks later, and was still getting calls for interviews.
Services I needed to consider at the office was multiple dns, email, and web servers. All were RH 7.x machines that always served us well and were kept updated with RHN. I went with Debian on all machines and the conversion is about done, updates are simple and Debian has security patches released fast. I run one Fedora machine which is a postfix/spamassassin filter which I run the latest releases on.
I went to Slack 9.1 at home:)
I purchased 8.0 pro when it came out and ran it for some time, yast2 did an execllent job in keeping the system updated but I soon wanted upgrades to applications on my system. I soon moved on to other distros where I could upgrade on the fly. Slackware 9.1 with swaret keeps me happy now.
We are currently looking at 2.1 vs SuSe enterprise for an upcoming application so I though this would be worth a read, not. Looks like a local review is in order.
We are moving from Red Hat to Debian for all our web, dns, and email systems. Systems that are clustered and or run Oracle will run RH advanced, though those will be few. Debians stability, security, and package management was the iceing on the cake.
In the company I work for it is difficult to build your own server. I could do it but time and hardware support are factors. We run mostly Dell Power Edges in a 2U rack mount, Linux runs great on these. I get them from the refurb site with full warrenty and no OS.
At home is another story, compiling Gentoo on a dual P-Pro 200 as I write...
I spent months getting NT4 MCSE, then months to pass the 240 upgrade for 2000 plus the design exam. At this point I give up on MCSE because my time is better spent being a sysadmin and not chasing tests for every new release.
My job has been so much easier since I started getting rid of Windows Servers for file/print, web, dns, and having *nix servers to replace them! They run, and run, and run.
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Yes I understand sites need to have ads in order to survive, but I wonder how much of it is greed. I have run Linuxbeginner.org for 3 years ad free so why start now??? I don't want income I want to help the community. I thought this was what supporting Linux was about.
I dont know if they are still there, I moved to Maine in 95, I lived in Paridise hills just down the road from sweetwater auto where I would also get my mopar stuff. No stuff around here like those places.
I spent many days in just those places in the early 90's. Beating certain people to the good parts at Ecology was always a challenge.
From the release: Version: 2.2 up to and including 2.2.25, 2.4 up to to and including 2.4.24, 2.6 up to to and including 2.6.2
I really did not want to spend my Sunday patching kernels.
Everytime my niece comes home from college I need to clean up her machine, its usally a mess. Trying to get her and others in my family to run Firefox has had a little sucess but getting them to accept change only seems to work when your standing over them. With 2 more heading off to college this year I will soon dread the christmas holiday.
It includes a slightly modified version of knoppix on cd.
If thats true, you will need a license for filling your tank, these licenses can vary from 1/4 tank @$250 to $1000 for a fillup.
Unemployed, its not IT but quality control which got hit really hard awhile back.
spends 8 hours a day on monster's boards, been that way for 3 years...
I too live in a small market area where tech jobs are few and far between. The jobs are not in the help wanted ads these days, they cost too much. ( I know, I work for a newspaper.) You need to look beyound the ads, open up the yellow pages and start gathering a list of every company that might have a IT staff and send them resumes. I sent 50 + one week, I had a tech support position 2 weeks later, and was still getting calls for interviews.
Will they rush it on 10.0 to be the first major 2.6 kernel based distro? If they do it could really hurt them if problems arrise with the release.
Services I needed to consider at the office was multiple dns, email, and web servers. All were RH 7.x machines that always served us well and were kept updated with RHN. I went with Debian on all machines and the conversion is about done, updates are simple and Debian has security patches released fast. I run one Fedora machine which is a postfix/spamassassin filter which I run the latest releases on. I went to Slack 9.1 at home :)
My Nick.
I purchased 8.0 pro when it came out and ran it for some time, yast2 did an execllent job in keeping the system updated but I soon wanted upgrades to applications on my system. I soon moved on to other distros where I could upgrade on the fly. Slackware 9.1 with swaret keeps me happy now.
vi /etc/apt/sources.list
!wq
We are currently looking at 2.1 vs SuSe enterprise for an upcoming application so I though this would be worth a read, not. Looks like a local review is in order.
I know you would not be contributing to the worm battle if you did! That makes it good.
smoking crack
We are moving from Red Hat to Debian for all our web, dns, and email systems. Systems that are clustered and or run Oracle will run RH advanced, though those will be few. Debians stability, security, and package management was the iceing on the cake.
In the company I work for it is difficult to build your own server. I could do it but time and hardware support are factors. We run mostly Dell Power Edges in a 2U rack mount, Linux runs great on these. I get them from the refurb site with full warrenty and no OS. At home is another story, compiling Gentoo on a dual P-Pro 200 as I write...
I spent months getting NT4 MCSE, then months to pass the 240 upgrade for 2000 plus the design exam. At this point I give up on MCSE because my time is better spent being a sysadmin and not chasing tests for every new release. My job has been so much easier since I started getting rid of Windows Servers for file/print, web, dns, and having *nix servers to replace them! They run, and run, and run.
And one patch will keep your system from booting! The ultimate defense!