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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers PC User/UNIX Novice - Where do I start? Post 302469022 by linuxlearner17 on Thursday 4th of November 2010 12:30:21 PM
Old 11-04-2010
Welcome "mightymo26" - if I may make a suggestion (what I found that worked for me) is using a VM player and loading some virtual machines to get a feel for the different distributions. In my virtual machine I have Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. They are RPM and Debian based respectively but show you how packages / repositories are managed and installed to machines.

Play around in the VM's first and get a feel for the command line and the differences between distributions. There are a ton of distros to choose from but the best is that they are free! Also come to places like this site or google items as "linux command line" with the distro you feel you want to run with...

Fedora is the closest the Red Hat - (in fact it's the testing bed for RHEL) and there is OpenSolaris you can download an try which too is an offshoot of the enterprise Solaris.

I hope some of this information is of help - if you have any other questions just let me know...

Good luck!
 

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RHN_CHECK(8)							   Red Hat, Inc.						      RHN_CHECK(8)

NAME
rhn_check - Check for and execute queued actions on RHN. SYNOPSIS
rhn_check [options] DESCRIPTION
rhn_check is a client program that connects to Red Hat Network (or a Red Hat Network Satellite) and receives queued actions for this par- ticular system. After receiving the actions, rhn_check will then process them, and return the results to Red Hat Network. OPTIONS
-v, --verbose Increase the debugging output. --proxy=PROXY Specify an http proxy to use. --proxyUser=PROXYUSER Specify a username to use for an authenticated proxy. This option must be used in conjunction with proxyPassword. --proxyPassword=PROXYPASSWORD Specify a password to use for an authenticated proxy. This option must be used in conjunction with proxyUser. --version Show the program's version number and exit. -h, --help Show a help message and exit. FILES
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid The digital server ID for this machine if the system has been registered onto Red Hat Network. This file does not exist otherwise. /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date The common configuration file used by RHN client programs. SEE ALSO
rhn_register(8), rhnreg_ks(8), rhnsd(8), rhn-profile-sync(8), rhnplugin(8), up2date(5). AUTHORS
See the AUTHORS file included with this software. This manual page was written by James Bowes <jbowes@redhat.com> BUGS
Report bugs to <http://bugzilla.redhat.com>. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1999-2010 Red Hat, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU- LAR PURPOSE. Linux 2010 August 30 RHN_CHECK(8)
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