On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Filippo Cattaneo wrote:
> > I am not at all familiar with the Redhat galaxy,
> > and wonder which manual is best for general SL reference.
> > 
> > As an example: I thought had to rerun the video install
> > as X crashed on login, and tried both of these:
> > 
> > 	redhat-config-xfree86   (RHEL)
> > 
> 
> 
> > 	system-config-display   (Fedora)
> > 
> > The latter worked.  Although SL is RHEL based,
> > it looks as if e.g. vendor cleansing put at least some
> > Fedora language in it.

That is because RHEL4 is Fedora 3 based.

> > 
> > Beyond manpages and other onboard documentation,
> > where should we go for a general reference manual, website,
> > or whatever, that most closely matches SL?
> > 
> > TIA!
> > 
> > Filippo Cattaneo
> > http://filippo.ru.ru
> 
> You should go to redhat for reference manuals and such.  Because that 
> should actually be
> 
> 	redhat-config-xfree86   (RHEL3, Fedora 1)
> 
> 	system-config-display   (RHEL4, Fedora 2, 3, 4..)
> 
> There are ALOT of changes between RHEL3 and RHEL4, and that is one of 
> them.  But Scientific Linux is RHEL based.  So you should look for 
> manuals and references based on RHEL not Fedora/  Kust remember that 
> there are changes between RHEL 3 (Scientific Linux 3.0.x) and RHEL 4 
> (Scientific Linux 4.x)
> 
> Troy
> 
-Connie Sieh