Monday, May 17, 2010

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] About Red hat linux

 

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 05:14:59PM -0400, J wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 16:38, Roy <linuxcanuck@gmail.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.

Nope, it's more desktop-ish than ever--as you know, they're using Fedora
12 or 13 as their basis, complete with most of its most moronic
ideas--though, possibly thanks to you, at least they have a little more
security than Windows.

It seems, from the CentOS forums, that they might have broken LDAP with
5.5., adding a sysconfig/ldap file, with absolutely no documentation.
Since their excuse for using 5 year old kernels is the whole stability
thing, this might do you guys at Canonical some good, as well as add
credence to MS' talk of TCO.

Aggravatedly yours,

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