I would suggest starting with Fedora. It's more up to date and is the upstream source RHEL and Centos come from. My theory is that more of the hardware will just work, and you can spend more of your time learning the applications themselves. <div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 12, 2011 3:02 PM, "Chick Tower" <<a href="mailto:c.e.tower@gmail.com">c.e.tower@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Ubuntu doesn't use RPM packages, so that (and any other Debian derivative) won't help you out, Jeremy. CentOS is a Red Hat clone, and it's free, so that would work. So would Mandriva, Mageia, and OpenSuSE, and I believe PCLinuxOS is RPM-based, too. As for instruction, you should be able to find tutorials on RPM in any search engine. Here's one for a start: <a href="http://search.yippy.com/search?query=linux%20RPM%20tutorial" target="_blank">http://search.yippy.com/search?query=linux%20RPM%20tutorial</a> Chick On 11/12/2011 12:53 PM, Jeremy Neil wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> so yeah, ive gotten a chance to work at liquid web (I hope you'd know what this business was :| ). But, I have little experience with rpm distro's so I'd like to know which distro I should start with. The job I'd be offered would be a system's admin essentially, even though I don't know enough console commands and stuff, and I'm still kinda new with using the console. However I'm willing to try my hardest to learn what I need to know, so bascially any pointers could help as well. Thought I'd ask you guys since the local ubuntu irc channel guys have pretty much rejected me :\ . </blockquote> _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu" target="_blank">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </blockquote></div>