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I've come across Red Hat allot lately and am wondering if I need to get studying. I'm an avid Ubuntu server user but don't want to get stuck only knowing one distro. What is the way to go if i want to know as much as I can for use in real world situations.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I once worked in for a small publishing company years ago, circa 2005, where they used CentOS on the desktop and server environments. Deploying a new desktop was as simple as using kickstart. They had their infrastructure down to a science.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope I can get my company to go linux. But for now I can only use it for myself. But i'm quietly pushing :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Good luck, users at my company would flip out if the desktop wallpaper was unfamiliar.