AJ wrote:

Just skimmed the Wikipedia article. There's a lot of bollocks going on with people doing things for no other reason than the fact they can. Which would be fine if it was a hobby thing and people weren't all going OMG.

Aye, I tinkered with that stuff just for shits and giggles. Having a couple of Nexuses and an OG Galaxy Tab mean I can play around just to see what I can do. Ubuntu on Android is one such example, possible but pointless.

Yeah, Kubuntu sits nicely on my 10+ yr old laptop.

By the by, Xubuntu is a much better pick than Kubuntu if you're running on 10+ yr old hw.
Lighter, faster and smaller; it runs better on older hardware.

hunk wrote:

Kubuntu easily rivals win10 and macosX in terms of presentation.

They've polished it up since I last used an Ubuntu distro in anger, then. KDE always seemed a bit rough around the edges way-back-when.

Though for a while my main machine was a Xubuntu box and I loved it.

Blue Swirl wrote:

Kubuntu easily rivals win10 and macosX in terms of presentation.

They've polished it up since I last used an Ubuntu distro in anger, then. KDE always seemed a bit rough around the edges way-back-when. Though for a while my main machine was a Xubuntu box and I loved it.

Xubuntu is great; solid little distro.
Kubuntu is quite a bit heavier with lots more eye candy. A real looker and definitely worth checking out.

Turns out Vista's losing support this year. Glad in a way but I won't be able to get a new machine in the immediate future. Any suggestions for a desktop Linux? It spends most of its time downloading torrents and storing / serving media to devices around the house.

Cool,been running Lubuntu on an old laptop for a while so won't be much different. Just making sure there was nothing more desktop/media servy I should look at. Thanks.

Well I've royally shot myself in the foot. One of our Linux guys quit recently, quite an experienced red hat chap. Over a cup of tea, my manager was taking about potentially hiring a replacement but not having the same salary band available as the guy who left, due to budget cuts. So any new guy wouldn't be that experienced. I stupidly said ".. Red hat? I could pick that up with some training, cant be that hard can it?" My intention was that I could learn RedHat and later on down the line ask for a pay rise. In retrospect this was a stupid idea.

So next thing I know I've been put on a two part RH training course. (Now I should mention, if you get put on a training course, you are expected to sit and pass the exam to get the certification. Otherwise you forfit your end of year bonus, with is a few grand).

So I've done part one of the course, part two is at the end of may with an exam. I'm studying at home after work, bought a RHCSA (RedHat Certified System Admin) study guide. Now I'm quite experienced with Windows OS, but Linux at times is completely baffling me. I know the more I study and practise the easier it should become, however I think I've bitten off more than I can chew and won't pass the exam. I'll give it my best shot, but I'm gonna forfeit my end of year bonus. Sigh.

On a related note, RedHat make it difficult to get their distro on a personal email address. I got a developer distro, however I need three distros for my lab. Can I reuse my RedHat developer distro multiple times? I had to register my first install in order to be able to download the repositories.

If not, is centOS and scientific Linux the closest comparable distros to RedHat?

CentOS is very similar to RHEL. It's basically the same code with less support (and maybe a slight drift assist over time, and minor differences like what uname says n shit).

RPMs and whatnot all use the same process, so yum and apt-get shizzle.

I'm happy to try and answer specific CentOS questions if you hit any, cos I'm pretty balls deep in it as my day job...

How different is Fedora to Red Hat? My initial thought was to suggest that.

Kind of, think it used to be that Fedora was a free, community built version of Red Hat. No idea how much it's diverged.

Cheers guys. Muzzy I may have questions in the near future. I'm gonna download centOS and scientific linux.

Doing some revision and although we had limited use of a Linux virtual machine but never used putty, these questions may pop up as they were on a past paper:

Write commands to do each of the following on a Virtual Machine that runs on Linux:
 
(i)      Get the IP Address
 
(ii)      List the files in the current directory
 
(iii)      Print the name of the working directory
 
(iv)      Change directory to /var/www
 
(v)      Display the contents of file index.html
 
(vi)      Copy a file named test.php to a file named test.php.v1
 
(vii) Edit file test.php using an editor such as vi or nano 
 
(viii) Use putty secure copy ‘pscp’ to copy the file test.php from the       /var/www directory of the Virtual Machine to the host machine.     Assume the username of the host machine is frodo, and its IP address is        192.168.1.1

Anyone care to share answers to ones that aren't struck through?
This is simply an exercise in avoiding Google if I can tap into the hive mind here and focus on other things.
Thanks.

Thanks AJ.
Is "more index.html" another option? I've just come across mention of a more command.

More would be

cat index.html | more

IIRC