Crash Course in LINUX

[Maui Nick]

Originally Posted by smoothmoniker

If you have an old PC lying around, download and install Fedora on it, to work with while you learn. Fedora is RedHat without the logo.

Sort of. Fedora is the distribution that Red Hat Enterprise Linux is based on; Fedora is more bleeding edge --- kind of like the "unstable" branch of Debian.

@Flint: To get a good feel for RHEL, download the current verison of CentOS and run it from a partition. It's RHEL with all the Red Hat logos and proprietary (non-GPL) stuff taken out. The CentOS developers literally download the publicly-available source RPMs of the current RHEL edition. You won't get closer to RHEL without buying it.