Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
Hi allA slightly louder rant, if I may.
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.
RHEL ships without mysql server, firewire and mailman, which is quite incomprehensible since redhat.com mailing lists run on mailman.
RHEL WS (workstation) doesn't come with mysql-server except via the extras but RHEL AS (advanced server) does of course come with mysql-server.
I can't vouch for the other packages but you can't really blame redhat for leaving servers out of their workstation distribution.
yonah
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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