[NTLUG:Discuss] Beginner!!

[Patrick Parks]

Red Hat Standard edition will work fine. The Professional edition comes
bundled with some tech support if you think you are going to need it, but on
that note, I have received better support from this mailing list than I
could ever hope for through REdHat or any other vendor. You can also
download for free RedHat 7.2(LatestVersion) at
http://www.redhat.com/download/rhlinux72.html. Hope this helps out, I am
sure you will get a good bit of responses from this list, good luck!


Patrick Parks
Radio Frequency Engineer
Berliner Communications
www.bcisites.com
parksp at bcisites.com
(504) 723-6460
(972) 354-7712 (Fax)



-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
Of lee
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 1:51 PM
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Beginner!!


hey, i used to be a beginner too, welcome!  yup, linux will run apache
software, which is a webserver, you can get the software from
http://www.apache.org, click the link to the http server.  i don't know
about differences from std/professional versions of red hat; i'm sure
that either will be more than sufficient for what you might want to do.
  and it's easy to have a dual boot machine, i have set that up many
times  and in fact, you're going about it the right way by having a
separate hard drive dedicated to linux -> it is a much simpler
configuration and install that way.

-- lee

Benjamin Long wrote:

> I'm new to Linux and have heard that its great for hosting websites. Which
> Linux would you recommend to accomplish this and also which version. I'm
> thinking Red Hat but unsure whether the Standard or Professional edition.
> I'm running a Pentium II. Also is it possible to dual boot between Linux
and
> Win 98. Win 98 is currently installed and thinking of getting an external
> harddrive to install Linux. Anycomments on that idea would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben



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