UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I am responsible for an AIX server at work and have had no formal training. I want to setup a LINUX box to "practice" and test things. I saw several books at Borders that include the full version of Red Hat Fedora Core 2. Would this be my best approach? I would like to setup a server at home and dula boot my laptop (currently XP).

Thanks

I currently dual-boot between XP and Red Hat 8.0, and that has served me well. I've used my Linux partition to play around with shell and PERL scripts that get used at the job. I've also played around with Java a couple of times with it, as well.

Most people will tell to go with Mandrake if you are a beginner, but Red Hat is not that hard, either.

I think you are making a decent choice.

Well we have all been at teh stage where we wonder what to start with

I foudn it is best to learn and use a few different distro's. Before you setup and stick with one distro. Install a few of the common distro's. Like Suse, Mandrake, Fedora, BSD and maybe some others.

That way at least you get the feel of several different distro's and you can work out for yourself which one you like. Everyone will choose a distro's because they like it for their own reasons.

Personally I run Suse. Though I've played with most distro's before I realised I prefer Suse over the others.

I have to completly agree with woofie on this, check out a few distro's, then find the one you feel the most compfortable with. I personally use SuSE, but I like slackware too.