New Linux Server Guide

[eq4me]

With Madriva 10.2 you should be fine. It uses MySQL 4.1 and gcc 3.4 You just have to find the equivalents to the Fedora RPMs needed and install them. If thee are compile errors snap&paste me the error messages. I'll have a look into it then.

Yes, Linux is free and imho as good or better as Windows for most things.
But in the hands of someone who is careless or doesnt want to think things through it can be also a recipe for dissaster. There are virtually no "Do you really want to do that?" saveguards when you are root.

There is an old joke among Unix Sysadmins
Once upon an time in an Unix Adminstration course with ten students.
Instructor: And if you want to read mail really fast type rm -rf /*
Nine out of ten students are laughting, one of then had to reinstall his Notebook.

[wize_one]

if you want to dig deeper in the linux world, try gentoo (www.gentoo.org ) for your distro. you install only what you want-need, bo bloating of a system. just be prepared to read and re-read for installing.

[Angelox]

Originally Posted by eq4me

With Madriva 10.2 you should be fine. It uses MySQL 4.1 and gcc 3.4 You just have to find the equivalents to the Fedora RPMs needed and install them. If thee are compile errors snap&paste me the error messages. I'll have a look into it then.

Yes, Linux is free and imho as good or better as Windows for most things.
But in the hands of someone who is careless or doesnt want to think things through it can be also a recipe for dissaster. There are virtually no "Do you really want to do that?" saveguards when you are root.

There is an old joke among Unix Sysadmins
Once upon an time in an Unix Adminstration course with ten students.
Instructor: And if you want to read mail really fast type rm -rf /*
Nine out of ten students are laughing, one of then had to reinstall his Notebook.

I trouble shoot and repair PC's (for a hobby now days) - as a result, I have years of parts laying around, I've been able to build whole PC's from scrapped parts. I always hated spam, and years ago , there was very little spam control on the ISP's mail servers - so I started my own email server, which eventually, I could not afford under windows and went Linux (Mandrake seemed to be the easiest for a windows drop-out at the time). It's been over six years now, and I have really learned a lot -glad I made the change (and stuck with it).
Glad to see your helping out with the Linux, I forgot what my problem was when I did my install, but I'll run it by you when I get there again.