[GLLUG] need some advice

[Chick Tower]

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:

http://search.yippy.com/search?query=linux%20RPM%20tutorial

                                Chick

On 11/12/2011 12:53 PM, Jeremy Neil wrote:
> 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 :\ .