[TriLUG] need help for Linux installation

[Jon Carnes]

Shantanu,

Welcome to the area (though a 216 area code shows you to be a bit out of
the Triangle area...)

I'm a former SAP guru myself and a former RedHat fan. I think you will
find that RedHat works very well with Oracle (and hence SAP). 
http://www.oracle.com/technologies/linux/index.html
 
The best way to start is simply to install a version of RedHat onto a
spare PC and begin playing. You might set as a primary goal getting
Oracle to run on the particular server you setup (if that is your goal
then you will want to use an earlier version of RedHat like RH9, rather
than the latest version of Fedora).

RedHat is fairly easy to install on moderately old hardware and out of
the box comes with most of the functionality you have with Windows.

If you don't have a spare box, you can still get the "Linux Experience"
by downloading a Knoppix CD and booting using that CD. You will be
utterly amazed. The bootable CD has everything you would want for the
average workstation: browser, email, Office applications, etc.

If you don't want to burn your own, then just show up at one of our
meetings with a few bucks and someone will be glad to burn one for you.

Take care, and welcome to the community!

Jon Carnes

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 20:04, Shantanu Shaligram wrote:
> Dear Folks,
> 
> My name is Shantanu! I am a SAP consultant recently moved to this area.
> I am very interested in switching to Linux but have no experience in
> it. I am looking for some help for this.
> 
> 1.	What Linux I should use? 
> 2.	I have a Dell Pentium 4, 1.6 Ghz Laptop; can I get all the drivers? 
> 3.	Someone has recommended Fedora to me, is it good. 
> 4.	Can you suggest me a good book for Fedora/Linux?
> 
>  My phone number is 216-262-3877. I would really
>  appreciate if I could talk to some one regarding this.
> 
>  Thanking you,
>  Shantanu S. Shaligram
> 
>  =====
>  Shantanu S. Shaligram
> 
>  Phone: 1-216-262-3877