Red Hat Linux is dead! Long live Red Hat Enterprise Linux!

[Armitage]

The good news is of course, that migrating from one Linux distro to another is ussually not that big a deal. If RedHat makes a decision that I don't like, I have the option to painlessly go somewhere else. Try that with Microsoft.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Next to Red Hat what is the 2nd easiest Linux distro to install?

I install redhat on a box at home to increase my linux foo and it was pain because my network card wasnt supported, Netgear FA311, i would suggest first finding a distro that supports the hardware you have in your box and going from there. it took me two days to find an appropiate driver and get it setup properly as plug and play doesnt work properly in redhat

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

FreeBSD > Red Hat.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
FreeBSD > Red Hat.

FreeBSD is not Linux. It is based on BSD UNIX

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
FreeBSD > Red Hat.

WEll duh, but that isn't the POINT. You might know that, but imagine how many windows users know that. Linux is like the bridge between unix and windows that has thousands of hobo's living on it and has become their home. Ok, bad analogy, but its hard to disagree that Redhat didn't at least play some part in bringing users to the OS.

Most clueless noobies will only find out about FreeBSD or OpenBSD or NetBSD or Gentoo or Linux from scartch after they've tried Redhat, mandrake, or suse.

This just leaves them with one less choice which sucks for them.

 

[MrYogi]

Originally posted by: Adul
there is debian, mandrake, suse , and many other viable distro's

linux is going to perish?? Mandrake had severe problems last year. They almost went bankrupt. Now They have not yet released 9.2 for public. It is available for people who pay. They are going to release it for public after one month itseems.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
FreeBSD > Red Hat.

FreeBSD is not Linux. It is based on BSD UNIX

Like I don't know. But FreeBSD can run most of the software which runs on Red Hat and more. Who cares about Red Hat, as long as FreeBSD continues to exist.

 

[earthman]

It was a stupid business model. You can't sell something and give it away for free at the same time. That model killed Be, almost killed Mandrakesoft, and who knows how many smaller companies. Simple equation, how many people use RedHat, and how many of those bought the retail box? 1 out of 10? 20? 50? The concept of the open source community enhancing the value of a product by their combined contributions doesn't hold up when nobody actually buys enough copies to support the infrastructure that provides it. Result: the infrastructure ends and the product becomes a fragmented "fringe" effort (Be), or it changes its model to protect IP and generate revenue (Mandrake, RedHat, SuSE).

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
FreeBSD > Red Hat.

FreeBSD is not Linux. It is based on BSD UNIX

Like I don't know. But FreeBSD can run most of the software which runs on Red Hat and more. Who cares about Red Hat, as long as FreeBSD continues to exist.

i know that.

i like slackware tho. as long as its here im happy

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
FreeBSD > Red Hat.

FreeBSD is not Linux. It is based on BSD UNIX

Like I don't know. But FreeBSD can run most of the software which runs on Red Hat and more. Who cares about Red Hat, as long as FreeBSD continues to exist.

I bet most of the RedHat users care.

Sometimes RedHat > FreeBSD

 

[Grey]

Originally posted by: Bootprint

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: eakers

Originally posted by: Ameesh
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

I told you it was stupid business model.

ameesh, are you the real bill gates?

I actually don't work at MS anymore, I am at Amazon.com now.

You really shouldn't have taken those pics of those MACs and mentioned where the loading dock is. 🙂

LOL that cracked me up!

 

Good.

It was poor software anyway.

 

[Chadder007]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: eakers

Originally posted by: Ameesh
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

I told you it was stupid business model.

ameesh, are you the real bill gates?

I actually don't work at MS anymore, I am at Amazon.com now.

Seriously?...what do you do there?

 

[silverpig]

Um, aren't they continuing with Fedora?

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Next to Red Hat what is the 2nd easiest Linux distro to install?

Mandrake.

yes, just use mandrake

 

[silverpig]

Okay, Fedora is their development release, and it's free... so it's kinda the same.

 

[GreenGhost]

And Novell just bought SuSE... One alternative less? What's IBM's take on this?

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Next to Red Hat what is the 2nd easiest Linux distro to install?

Mandrake.

yes, just use mandrake

Mandrake is far easier to install and has far better hardware support compared to Red Hat. Just like Windows.

Too bad they also looked at Microsoft when deciding on how stable it should be.