[ale] RealAudio on linux; distro reccomendations

[Joe Knapka]

Frank Zamenski wrote:
> 
> Joe,
> 
> ...
> 
> While all Linux distros obviously have strengths and weaknesses (minor at
> that), I would cast my lot with Red Hat and Caldera also. RH for obvious
> support almost anywhere all day long, and Caldera as it's designed for the
> hectic IS business environment i.e. installs easy,  lots of GUI tools. But
> then, RH (and other distro) installs are getting darn simple now, too, thus
> install ease is becoming almost moot. The RPMs supported by both are still
> pretty slick though. With your co-worker accustomed to InstallShield, he'd
> appreciate these.

Cool, two votes out of two for RH, and he's already got a RH CD in
his hot little hands. It may be an older version though. Whatever.

> Perhaps VMWare might ease his transition a/a, too. He can then maintain his
> comfort level, use most of his familiar stuff, and learn Linux as he goes,
> since what the heck, Linux would always be running under his NT anyway and
> should intice him. But he might want to keep his NT server(s) for a while,
> and compliment them with a Linux only testbed server, integrating it into
> his LAN as he learns on his VM workstation, whatever.

That's something to think about, for personal use anyhow. Probably
not for the real-life video server though :-)
 
> <totally OT>
> 
> One thing I can say about 'crummy ole DOS': not having been 'bred' in an IT
> environment all my working life like some others here, I attribute knowing
> it well (started with it in the late 80s, mastered it by the early 90s) to
> giving me an edge in picking up general *nix command line stuff fairly
> easily. With DOS now 'dead' and an MS point and click raised generation
> abundant now -- many of whom couldn't do basic DOS for neither love nor
> money nor life (I've helped many younger associate desktop support techs set
> up a custom autoexec.bat or config.sys files in WinWhateverFlavor, and I'd
> find it often utterly exasperating! ) -- many just never will make the
> transition to Linux in it's present incarnations unless they have the
> motivation and drive. Does your co know any command line anything?  ;-)

Mark started life as an EE in a primitive third-world country
(Great Britain), so I suspect he has not developed an
unbreakable addiction to pretty UIs. I do phone support with him
on a fairly regular basis, and he's easily picked up everything he needs
to administer various OS/2 and Windows software we have running at
client sites, so I think he'll be able to pick up Linux without too much
trouble. I just want to make it as easy as possible so he doesn't
feel tempted to go back to NT :-)

Thanks,

-- Joe
 
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