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Made my choice
- Thread starter DDR-PIII
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Congradulations. Haven't used Redhat since 6, but I hear there are a lot of improvements (especially in installation)
If your talking about md5sum (as in the MD5 message digest checker), then its like checksum.
If your talking about md5sum (as in the MD5 message digest checker), then its like checksum.
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ahh ok 
thanks for you help I've never even layed my hands on *nix but ppl said I should start with this one and its got a GUI so i gotta atleast try it out ..... gotta get a bigger hhd to cuz im only gonna use a 6.4gbhhd and I wanna dualboot with something else too, maybe... either way i need a bigger hdd.
thanks for you help I've never even layed my hands on *nix but ppl said I should start with this one and its got a GUI so i gotta atleast try it out ..... gotta get a bigger hhd to cuz im only gonna use a 6.4gbhhd and I wanna dualboot with something else too, maybe... either way i need a bigger hdd. Johnny Knoxville
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You made the right choice, RedHat 8 is the best Linux i've ever used, if MS Word, Nero and photoshop were ported i would be using it all the time.
Johnny Knoxville
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no they are source code, by the way Redhat pheobe is released but its still beta
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is phoebe redhat 8.1 already?
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ummmmmm hehe... how do I install it ? do i gotta use a win bootdisk to install some drivers so i can use the cd-rom? probably not right ? but i'd like to know how... i havent gone through the radme yet but im going to right away
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Just set your cd rom to the first bootable device and it should boot by itself.
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No problem.
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Well linux is very different from windows. Many viruses are designed to take advantage of specific things, so they can't function on another system that lacks those things. Like a windows virus might try to add itself to the registery or startup folder so that it starts on boot, it can't do that in linux (it would have to go to the rc.local or something of the sort).
Because the vast majority of computers run Windows, people usually don't bother making viruses for linux (linux users are probably more computer literate too, and won't be fooled by random email attachments and the such).
Not to say that you shouldn't be concerned with security. If you're running a server, especially, you'll want to stay on top of things and save yourself a lot of trouble. Probably the most important security measure you'll need to consider in linux is a firewall.
Because the vast majority of computers run Windows, people usually don't bother making viruses for linux (linux users are probably more computer literate too, and won't be fooled by random email attachments and the such).
Not to say that you shouldn't be concerned with security. If you're running a server, especially, you'll want to stay on top of things and save yourself a lot of trouble. Probably the most important security measure you'll need to consider in linux is a firewall.
