How many versions of Red Hat

[kaleemullahbilal]

Hello Guys..
am the new user of linux just enter in a learning phase wana know how many versions of redhat including server and client

[exkor5000]

RedHat / Fedora are the worst distros to start with you will learn nothing at all. Would you learn anything about flying a plane if it was fully automated and all you have to do is press the start / end buttons?

Look into Slackware / Gentoo / Debian is my suggestion if you want to learn at least something.

Cheers

[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

You can see the version history of Red Hat here:

Red Hat Linux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

...and see the version history of Red Hat Enterprise Linux here:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[kaleemullahbilal]

thanx

how can i knw abt slackware/ geento and debian u mean these are the less complex versions as compared to redhat

[kaleemullahbilal]

inshort i wana say gud by to windows so tell me from ahere i ahve to start

[exkor5000]

Slackware / Debian are not more complex they are just less automated. It will take you some time to learn the basic tools but once you know them all the automated tools that RedHat offers will be un needed and an inconvenience for you. If you are comfortable with one of these distros you will eat RedHat for breakfast...

I will give you an example, I was installing RedHat on my laptop to familiarize with it for a project. I have never touched it before, but I used to work with Slackware for many years (since version 8 ). The installation of RedHat was a mess, I could not partition the drives the way I wanted and I could not create a partition with the mount point "/root", it just doesn't let you do that, go figure why. Doesn't matter what way I tried nothing worked out. I just ended up booting from Slackware cd and partitioning the way I want it with fdisk, then running the RedHat "fancy" Anaconda installer again. At the end of the installation for some unknown reasons it allowed me to install GRUB (the boot loader) only onto the first logical partition hda5, again go figure. That being said when I rebooted the system there was no boot loader available to boot the system. Once again I had to load a Slackware live cd (Slax) and installing GRUB into the MBR manually. Would you be able to do this only with RedHat fancy tools? I don't think so...

If you want to learn stay away from automated tools, operating systems like RHEL, CentOS, SuSe... etc. Start from Slackware / Debian, you will learn faster then others and know much more at the end.

I can't post links, some anti-spam protection, go to slackware dot com

[Mad Professor]

I had my first start on redhat using CENTOS 4.x. It was okay, it was like getting on the interstate and enabling cruise control. But after awhile I realize that the automated tools provided wasn't as flexible as it would have been by terminal or editing the .conf files. After while you end up picking up things as you learn, and eventually you'll realize that the structures of all the distro's out there are similar and you'll need google from time to time.

Frankly pick a distro and stick with it.