Re: [LINUX_Newbies] About Red hat linux

Redhat is MEANT for servers by the companies own admission. They have
expressly stated that they do intend to get into the desktop market. Fedora
is their desktop initiative. As you deviate from what Redhat is intended
then you are distorting their mission and the Linux environment. Redhat does
lots of things differently from other distributions and many Linux skills
are not transferable directly to Redhat because Redhat likes it that way.
Their money is made in support and training. These differences would only
confuse others.

My point was that any discussion of servers here would be way over the head
of most newbies who come here for desktop help. Sure you can help him learn
Redhat here, but there are better places because you are more likely to find
like minded individuals there. You could argue that Linux newbies would
include Redhat, but his question wasn't specific, but rather on how to learn
Redhat. So I pointed him in another direction. I don't see that any harm was
done as he can still ask questions here if he has something specific.

I notice that you did not answer his query but questioned my answer. I find
that peculiar. Are we nitpicking?

Roy

On 17 May 2010 17:14, J <dreadpiratejeff@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 16:38, Roy <linuxcanuck@gmail.com<linuxcanuck%40gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> > Redhat is SERVER distribution. Most users here are new DESKTOP Linux
> users.
> > A server distribution such as Redhat, is not meant to even use X,
> although
> > you can use a GUI, but it introduces potential problems, that you can
> avoid
> > by running from a terminal.
> >
> > You would do better to look at a site such as Linuxquesstions.org and
> seek
> > out Redhat threads or forums such as:
> > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/
>
> Did Red Hat kill off X in RHEL 6? RHEL has always had a GUI and
> worked just as well as a desktop OS as it does a server OS. I used
> RHEL 4 and 5 for a long time as desktop OSs on both test and
> development systems.
>
> The Server only thing is just marketing junk,
>
> ANY Linux is a server distribution, just as ANY Linux is a desktop
> distribution (within general descriptions of ANY). Obviously there
> are some specialised distributions out there, but most of those are
> appliance distros for specific purposes (running on CoA systems, plug
> and boot routers, etc).
>
> For absolute Newbies, however, I do usually recommend Ubuntu, but
> CentOS runs just as well.
>
> Cheers,
> Jeff
>
>

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