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Larry Lines wrote: |
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> I learned Linux by |
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> installing and hacking and suffering over Gentoo. Exactly one year |
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> after installing Gentoo, I was in Hong Kong building and programming for |
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> a Linux cluster. There is no other distribution that compresses the |
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> learning curve like that. I still can't figure out what is supposed to |
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> be easier about running Redhat or Fedora. Sure installation is easier |
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> but then you don't know where anything is and you can't tweak anything |
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> easily. |
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And that's precisely because a whole generation of RHCEs knows *exactly* |
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where everything is on a Red Hat or Fedora system, and Gentoo puts |
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everything somewhere else. :) If I were an RHCE, I'd have just as much |
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trouble customizing and tweaking a Gentoo (or Debian) box as you would |
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on a Fedora system. I know ... I've flunked the dang RHCE exam *twice* |
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for that very reason! :) It's about repetition, muscle memory, rote |
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learning, etc. -- not about Red Hat being "better" than Gentoo or the |
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other way around. |
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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, FBG, AB, PTA, PGS, MS, MNLP, NST, ACMC(P) |
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http://borasky-research.blogspot.com/ |
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If God had meant for carrots to be eaten cooked, He would have given rabbits fire. |
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