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> > but i still consider REDHAT as a grand master ,and UBUNTU is a new distro > and there is a long way for it to go for SERVER(some experienced friends > recommended REDHAT ). I think your friends have experience with Redhat only. and the real fun of LINUX lies in discovering and managing in limits > (against WINDOWS ,in which you never has to struggle to get a thing done ). Get work done in Winblows without struggle? You are kidding me, right? :) > Take my word, use Ubuntu. I dont understand why people r so interested in >> redhat. In my lab, I have a comp. with red hat Linux. It has a very old >> kernel, but it even does not recognize USB drives having ext3 filesystem. >> > There is a difference between RHEL (red hat enterprise edition) and just red hat linux. If you look at the history of releases of red hat (both) distributions http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=redhat , you will find that the last "red hat" distribution was shrike in 2003. That release is outdated but I still see lots of labs using it. May be your lab is still using that version. A lot of things have changed since then, especially new hardware in the market. There was a time when Redhat was probably one of the most popular distributions around, all major vendors (of proprietary software for example for Linux -- Matlab is one I can remember) would support their software on Red Hat, but since RH9, that has gone down in general (in what I have seen). I have seen growing support by vendors of debian based distributions (you can find .deb file these days, gone are the days of .rpm galore). This might also be the case since I stopped using rpm based distributions (I was using mandrake, a derivative of Red Hat), but I haven't been using a debian distribution for the major part of the last 5 years. RHEL is targeted at enterprises (from what the name suggests to me). That doesn't mean that it is the best for server applications -- it is probably intended for use on desktops and servers in an enterprise; to have a complete solution (I remember somebody saying on this list that playing songs for example on RHEL is a bitch). What probably makes RHEL good for enterprises is their "good?" support. That would be the reason why enterprises would go for RHEL. After all that nonsense from me, I'll just give some age old guru gyan :p -- every distribution is designed with a certain target audience or goal in mind. Amit, you have said so yourself before when you were talking about live distributions. It can be fun working with RHEL too, and probably is a necessity for someone preparing for RHCE. Enough said :p Sharad --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ l...@iitd mailing list -- group http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
