Red Hat Linux 7.1 : Good or Not?
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Does anyone know how good the redhat workstation 7.1 is? "The world doesn't care about your self esteem. The world expects you to get something done BEFORE you feel good about yourself." ~ Bill Gates
What do you really mean by good? As a workstation or as a Linux distribution? What parameters are you looking for? As OS, I personally do not buy Red Hat Linux with version *.0 or *.1. The best are always *.2 and also the last in the major version number. Best regards, Paul. Paul Selormey, Bsc (Elect Eng), MSc (Mobile Communication) is currently Windows open source developer in Japan, and open for programming contract anywhere!
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Does anyone know how good the redhat workstation 7.1 is? "The world doesn't care about your self esteem. The world expects you to get something done BEFORE you feel good about yourself." ~ Bill Gates
I use Linux in a limited capacity as a PHP development server. For the small amount of things that I do, it works fine. Compared to Slack, the install was a breeze. Also compared to Slack, Red Hat is B L O A T E D. FYI, they just released version 7.2, so unless you hear otherwise, you may as well go with the latest and greatest. Jon Sagara Temorary alias until I can sign in under my regular account again.
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What do you really mean by good? As a workstation or as a Linux distribution? What parameters are you looking for? As OS, I personally do not buy Red Hat Linux with version *.0 or *.1. The best are always *.2 and also the last in the major version number. Best regards, Paul. Paul Selormey, Bsc (Elect Eng), MSc (Mobile Communication) is currently Windows open source developer in Japan, and open for programming contract anywhere!
As OS, I personally do not buy Red Hat Linux with version *.0 or *.1. The best are always *.2 and also the last in the major version number. LOL, forgive me for laughing whilst I don't know Jack about Linux, Your comment made me remember a system administrator who swore he wouldn't use odd numbered versions as they were inferior. Serious though always wait for a service pack to come out before you buy or use if you don't want problems,is so true. Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
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Does anyone know how good the redhat workstation 7.1 is? "The world doesn't care about your self esteem. The world expects you to get something done BEFORE you feel good about yourself." ~ Bill Gates
I am currently using Redhat 7.1 having done quite a number of different installs on various hardware with very little trouble. :-D However the version of GCC included is severly X| and needs to be 'service packed' so beware if your planning on doing any 'building'.
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As OS, I personally do not buy Red Hat Linux with version *.0 or *.1. The best are always *.2 and also the last in the major version number. LOL, forgive me for laughing whilst I don't know Jack about Linux, Your comment made me remember a system administrator who swore he wouldn't use odd numbered versions as they were inferior. Serious though always wait for a service pack to come out before you buy or use if you don't want problems,is so true. Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
Bring back the EMBED tag
The convention with the kernel is: Even minor version number - Stable Odd minor version number - Development Example: 1.2.3 Major release 1, fourth(0,1,2,3) revision of stable branch 2. Most other packages use this convention also. I´m not so sure what it means for a distribution, though..:confused:
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I use Linux in a limited capacity as a PHP development server. For the small amount of things that I do, it works fine. Compared to Slack, the install was a breeze. Also compared to Slack, Red Hat is B L O A T E D. FYI, they just released version 7.2, so unless you hear otherwise, you may as well go with the latest and greatest. Jon Sagara Temorary alias until I can sign in under my regular account again.
Yeah, Slack is a very fit and trim distro. But you can have it do everything RH does as well. Jon, what version of Slack did you use that the install was difficult? I personally love Slackware. Everything starts at the console. No "helpful" GUIs to get you started. It really forces you to learn the details. But once you get it goin' it's great, and you know what's goin' on behind the scenes. Josh josh@that-guy.net
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Yeah, Slack is a very fit and trim distro. But you can have it do everything RH does as well. Jon, what version of Slack did you use that the install was difficult? I personally love Slackware. Everything starts at the console. No "helpful" GUIs to get you started. It really forces you to learn the details. But once you get it goin' it's great, and you know what's goin' on behind the scenes. Josh josh@that-guy.net
I found the Slack install difficult because I wasn't too familiar with Linux at the time. I needed Apache, MySQL, and PHP all installed and configured correctly, and I didn't have a lot of time, so I abandoned my Slack efforts and downloaded Red Hat. Worked right out of the box just the way I needed it to. So, in short, if had known what I was doing, I would have used Slack. Great distro. Jon Sagara "After all is said and done, usually more is said than done." -- Unknown
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As OS, I personally do not buy Red Hat Linux with version *.0 or *.1. The best are always *.2 and also the last in the major version number. LOL, forgive me for laughing whilst I don't know Jack about Linux, Your comment made me remember a system administrator who swore he wouldn't use odd numbered versions as they were inferior. Serious though always wait for a service pack to come out before you buy or use if you don't want problems,is so true. Regardz Colin J Davies
Sonork ID 100.9197:Colin
Bring back the EMBED tag
That sysadmin wasn't totally cracked up. In the numbering scheme of the linux kernel, odd numbered versions are considered "development versions" and possibly unstable, while even numbered versions are considered fit for release. Josh josh@that-guy.net
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That sysadmin wasn't totally cracked up. In the numbering scheme of the linux kernel, odd numbered versions are considered "development versions" and possibly unstable, while even numbered versions are considered fit for release. Josh josh@that-guy.net
Think of it like the Star Trek movies....the odd numbered ones blew total goats..(#5 WHAT were they THINKING??!!) But the even numbered ones ruled! Erik As Borusa always said, There's nothing more useless than a lock with a voice print.
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Does anyone know how good the redhat workstation 7.1 is? "The world doesn't care about your self esteem. The world expects you to get something done BEFORE you feel good about yourself." ~ Bill Gates
Just be sure to apply all the patches and updates and you should be ok. That's the same for any linux distro. As for how good is it? That depends on what you want to do with it. Check the www.slashdot.org archives for comparisons on different linux distros.
Todd Smith