[ILUG] Free Linux? Newbe Q

[Andoni]

Hi,

Actually what I am looking for is something with no applications at all.

I have plenty experience in using Linux just not in installing, compiling,
administering, etc.

What I want to do is install Tomcat, JBoss, Apache, PHP. Stick it in behind
my Firewall and bob's your uncle. I don't care about applications on it at
all.

Now that you know better should I go for RedHat or Fedora?

Andoni.


----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David O'Callaghan" <david.ocallaghan at cs.tcd.ie>
> To: "Andoni" <andoni at ireland.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 4:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] Free Linux? Newbe Q
> 
> 
> > Hi Andoni,
> >
> > On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 15:11, Andoni wrote:
> > > I am going to go with RedHat if I can get a free copy so will look up
> the
> > > URLs suggested to find where people have already compiled them.
> >
> > As others have mentioned, if you're interested in trying out Linux then
> > RedHat Enterprise (or one of the recompiled clones) may not be the best
> > thing to start with. As the name might suggest, this is intended for
> > business servers and so is quite conservative in the software it
> > includes. If you're looking for a RedHat distribution with the latest
> > desktop applications then Fedora (http://fedora.redhat.com/) will suit
> > better.
> >
> > David
> >
>