UnixReview reviews Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux 3.0. Joe Casad concludes that “Enterprise Linux 3 looks and feels more like a steady, sober corporate computer system than previous Red Hat offerings, although the changes to the user experience are subtle and may not attract a lot of attention.”
UnixReview on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
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Sure it looks like any other Red Hat release, but I’ve looked in the src.rpms of RHEL 3 and they did allot of changes to enhance performance, stability and portability. There is where the value is. But this is not Linux for the regular home user. And I wouldn’t recommend to anyone trying to compile src.rpms like the kernel on RedHat Linux 9 or Fedora Core 1, because it doesn’t work. RHEL is a well tested and contained system, ideal for corporate use.
Normally it’s not adviced to reply to moded down comments, but on this one I would like to answer:
RHEL 3 (WS) looks like any other recent RedHat Linux release with Bluecurve, +- some applications, like for instance GNUCASH is missing. Otherwise look at RHL 9 and it’s the same as RHEL 3.
Cheers.
Hi
fedora will stay as a free version. redhat really depends on it being free to keep people interested. if you want something thats always free – debian,gentoo and mandrake might be better options
regards
ram
This attitude is exactly why Linux will NEVER be widely supported. Red Hat is trying to make money because they are a business who wants to stay in business….and guess what? People are sticking with IBM, Microsoft, and Sun!
Well the problem with paying for support is that as soon as you start paying for something its no longer completely free (beer) amd then theLinux loses its biggest advantage (despite the community most ppl still just want free stuff and charity). Afterall maybe paying a little bit more might get you something better for your job from Sun IBM HP etc. I even heard that Sun shares some of its source code to some of it’s larger clients… Well this is a new Red Hat for those who have a use for it.
I’m not sure what hole you are in … Linux is widely supported.
Most of the Web servers on the internet are Linux…
RedHat needs to make money … and they are. RedHat’s revenue grew from $378 Million in 2002 to $440 million in 2003.
IBM is pushing Linux … Oracle is converting all their in house database servers to Linux. Sun is also selling Linux and has developed their Java Linux Desktop product …
HELLO!!!! McFly… Is anybody home!
Widely used isn’t the same as widely supported. Where I work we don’t need support. We are a small company and have fairly low requirements from Linux servers, certainly nothing that I can’t support myself.
However some people need support. They need to ring, email, or get someone in to fix or maintain servers or desktops. Some people pay a fortune to contract an IT company to help them run things.
RH has made a standard product line that isn’t free to get the most out of its service environment. So that service is offered to those who need it enough to pay for it and not to those who don’t want it.
If I was running Linux on an IBM mainframe I’d probably want support (I know next to nothing about mainframes). The cost of getting that support from RH would probably be worth it compared to the cost of getting me up to speed, and the license cost wouldn’t count for much either.
“If I was running Linux on an IBM mainframe I’d probably want support (I know next to nothing about mainframes). The cost of getting that support from RH would probably be worth it compared to the cost of getting me up to speed, and the license cost wouldn’t count for much either.”
You got the idea. Congratulations. Most people don’t seem to.
For small business, it probably doesn’t make much sense to take out that support contract. For larger companies, it’s often easier and cheaper to make someone specialized do the work.
-Erwos
in RHE 3.0? or will it be?
in RHE 3.0? or will it be?
I certainly hope not.
Red Hat has said that kernel 2.6 probably won’t show up before 2005 in the Enterprise Edition. Give it a year to mature and be tested.