Flow My Thoughts, The IT Professor Said

Wearing The Linux Hat With Ease

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1545612,00.asp

The indexed article examines the 2.6 major revision of the Linux kernel and finds it has made significant improvements for enterprise support. Of course in the production environment, you want an integrated distribution, not merely a kernel, and one example, 'Fedora', is reviewed here:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1542890,00.asp

The equivalent offering from SuSE is discussed and reviewed in these two articles:

http://eletters.wnn.ziffdavis.com/zd1/cts?d=75-145-1-1-618817-6964-1

http://eletters.wnn.ziffdavis.com/zd1/cts?d=75-145-1-1-618817-6967-1

On a related note, in the educational environment, the ability to run a Linux distribution from CD can be a valuable attribute in teaching as well as for laboratory work, and a two-part article on this can be found here:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1457025,00.asp

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1544559,00.asp

with the drawbacks and advantages of this approach clearly detailed.

Posted by jho at March 18, 2004 04:01 PM