I'm beginner with Linux... I have found a good resource, it's a book called "Beginning Red Hat Linux 9"... the centos's version that I've installed "centos 6"... Is this book may be compatible with Centos 6 ? Best regards...
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 04:51:54PM -0800, Bassem Sossan wrote:> I have found a good resource, it's a book called "Beginning Red Hat Linux > 9"... > the centos's version that I've installed "centos 6"... > Is this book may be compatible with Centos 6 ?Define "compatible". RH9 is very very *very* old. It's from 2003. It got replace with Fedora. To confuse you, "RedHat Enterprise Linux" (RHEL) is a not the same as "RedHat Linux" (RH). CentOS follows RHEL. RHEL 2.1 was approximately RH7. RHEL3 ~= RH9. RHEL6 ~= Fedora 12. So some of the ideas (eg "rpm") are the same, but because it's old many of the details will be wrong. -- rgds Stephen
On 2/12/2013 7:51 PM, Bassem Sossan wrote:> I'm beginner with Linux... > I have found a good resource, it's a book called "Beginning Red Hat Linux > 9"... > the centos's version that I've installed "centos 6"... > Is this book may be compatible with Centos 6 ? > >Ahhh.... easy confusion. Red Hat Linux was a bit less Enterprise oriented. If I recall, Red Hat 9 was out about the same time the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.x was out. That became known as RHEL for short. CentOS is a clone of RHEL. So, CentOS 6 is the latest from Redhat other than the Fedora project. In summary, most of that book will have good information, in particular the basics, but it is very old at this point. I suppose around 10 years old now. That book will not cover a number of things that have been added into CentOS 6. -- John Hinton 877-777-1407 ext 502 http://www.ew3d.com Comprehensive Online Solutions
On 2/12/2013 4:51 PM, Bassem Sossan wrote:> I'm beginner with Linux... > I have found a good resource, it's a book called "Beginning Red Hat Linux > 9"... > the centos's version that I've installed "centos 6"... > Is this book may be compatible with Centos 6 ?not really. Red Hat Linux is ancient. 9 was the short lived final version, in 2003. after RHL 9 came RH Enterprise Linux 2.1, then RHEL 3, then 4, 5, and now RHEL 6, which is rebuilt as CentOS 6. so that book is describing a version of linux that is from 10 years ago, an eternity in computer software evolution. the most basic usermode shell commands will be somewhat the same. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast