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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: The Bar-Abbas Anomaly on February 16, 2006, 02:55:17 pm

Title: Old ver. Linux help needed
Post by: The Bar-Abbas Anomaly on February 16, 2006, 02:55:17 pm

 
I have a friend who just built a Linux box on brand new hardware and she installed RedHat v7.2.  Pop3 and WUFTP appear not to be installed.... Are these components disabled by default, or do they maybe need to be installed seperately?

Title: Re: Old ver. Linux help needed
Post by: Mr_Tricorder on February 16, 2006, 03:15:16 pm

Is there any reason why she's using Red Hat 7.2 instead of a current distribution?  I'm not familiar with older distros, but she would probably be better off with something like SUSE, Fedora Core, Mandriva, or ubuntu (or kubuntu if she prefers KDE over Gnome).  They're free and available for download from their respective websites.  You can find more information at www.distrowatch.com (http://www.distrowatch.com).

The consumer level Red Hat distro has been discontinued.  Instead there is Red Hat Enterprise (not free) for business use and Fedora Core, which is made by the same people.  Fedora Core is for individual users, is free, contains the latest (though not necessarily stable) software, and is used as a testbed for programs and features to be implemented into Red Hat Enterprise.