RHEL Fedora Comparison
Red Hat finally put up a fairly well done side-by-side comparison between RH Enterprise Linux, Fedora and the now discontinued RH Linux. http://www.redhat.com/software/rhelorfedora/ Michael ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: RHEL Fedora Comparison
Collins Richey wrote: I put up a copy a few days ago and ran it for a few days using the default Gnome and Evolution. It's not a bad distro. Easy to install, but a few fatal flaws. It failed to detect my NIC as a Tulip card (picked some off the wall choice), but it did select the appropriate OSS module form my soundcard, and the printer was setup automatically. Hmm. That's been one of the best features of RHL in recent years - nearly flawless hardware detection. (Tulip cards are about as ordinary as you can get.) Hopefully they're not going backwards in that. Michael ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: RHEL Fedora Comparison
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:17:37 -0600 Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Red Hat finally put up a fairly well done side-by-side comparison between RH Enterprise Linux, Fedora and the now discontinued RH Linux. http://www.redhat.com/software/rhelorfedora/ I put up a copy a few days ago and ran it for a few days using the default Gnome and Evolution. It's not a bad distro. Easy to install, but a few fatal flaws. It failed to detect my NIC as a Tulip card (picked some off the wall choice), but it did select the appropriate OSS module form my soundcard, and the printer was setup automatically. Also, you get no choice about maintaining your own bootloader! I had to let fedora install its own version of grub (fancy screen format and all) then remerge the grub.conf entries after rebooting. Uses apm (instead of the newer acpi, and surprisingly enough it works. I made the mistake of signing up (for a day or two) for the fedora email list. Lots of good info, but 400 posts a day! Bleeding edge? No way! There's nary a 2.6 kernel in sight. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: RHEL Fedora Comparison
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 5:14 pm, someone claiming to be Collins Richey wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:17:37 -0600 Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Red Hat finally put up a fairly well done side-by-side comparison between RH Enterprise Linux, Fedora and the now discontinued RH Linux. http://www.redhat.com/software/rhelorfedora/ I put up a copy a few days ago and ran it for a few days using the default Gnome and Evolution. It's not a bad distro. Easy to install, but a few fatal flaws. It failed to detect my NIC as a Tulip card (picked some off the wall choice), but it did select the appropriate OSS module form my soundcard, and the printer was setup automatically. Also, you get no choice about maintaining your own bootloader! I had to let fedora install its own version of grub (fancy screen format and all) then remerge the grub.conf entries after rebooting. Uses apm (instead of the newer acpi, and surprisingly enough it works. I made the mistake of signing up (for a day or two) for the fedora email list. Lots of good info, but 400 posts a day! Bleeding edge? No way! There's nary a 2.6 kernel in sight. Just working out the kinks in a RHL8.0-Fedora Core 1 upgrade. Went fairly smoothly. I uninstalled a bunch of homemade RPMs first and had some minor issues with remnants of KDE3.1.4 from the kde-redhat install. Mostly a good experience though. Had a minor problem upgrading OOo under my user (the three other users were fine) and had to rm -rf ~/.openoffice to get it to work. (found that out with a quick chat on #fedora). Lost my printer driver on the upgrade of cups and had to re-install that today (after complaints from the wife that she couldn't print something today). But, all in all, a good upgrade install. Regards, Tim -- Fedora Core 1, Kernel 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl, KDE 3.1.4, Xfree86 4.3.0 19:45:00 up 2 days, 2:12, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.05, 0.03 It's what you learn after you know it all that counts ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
