Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

Hi all

A small rant, if I may.

Due to strange circumstances I ended up using RHEL3 (RedHat Enterprise
Linux 3. Actually: Centos 3.1, which is a clone of it). This seems to be
a bad decision to make:

RHEL misses many highly-useful packages.

To name those I currently miss most of all:

gvim (vim-X11. vim-basic and vim-enhanced are there, though)
ncftp
lynx/links/elinks/w3m: no text-mode browser in sight.
mc
gv (ggv is there, though. I'm not sure about kghostview)

In other words: will make your life misserable as a server if you ever
want to do decent remote administration.



A slightly louder rant, if I may.

RHEL ships without mysql server, firewire and mailman, which is quite incomprehensible since redhat.com mailing lists run on mailman.

I was forced to use third party binaries for these packages, except for firewire, which seems to be a dead project. Mysql server is now on the RHEL extras channel, but it took a while before they put it there. On the whole installing RHEL can be quite a frustrating experience.





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