[SBE] Career advice needed

[Cowboy]

On Thursday 24 September 2009 11:33 am, A9xw at cs.com wrote:

>  Red Hat linux seems to be the best avenue.


 Depends what school you go to !!

 CentOS ( red hat enterprise minus support ) is not too unpopular
 for business machines.
 My main-stay is Slackware, as it more closely resembles the real BSD
 unix derivatives ( like QNX ) I work with.
 Debian is pretty much the parent of the SystemV linux derivatives, 
 like Ubunto and Mandrake.
 Red Hat is a *nix unto itself. It does run on the linux kernel, but isn't
 so representative of the 60 or so OS that run over that kernel.

 Some Linux OS's can be bought pre-packaged.
 All can be downloaded one way or another as Open Source.

 Red Hat is commercially supported by Red Hat.
 SuSE is commercially supported by Novel.
 Blue Cat is commercially supported by LynxOS.
 Others are supported by various individuals and organizations.

 Remember, Linux is a kernel.
 There are a miriad of operating systems that run over that kernel,
 all of them unix-like systems, but only the kernel is properly called "Linux."

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