[CLUE-Tech] RH flavor recommendation

[Adam bultman]

qqq1one @yahoo.com wrote:

>Anyone have a recommendations on which flavor of RH is best for home
>use these days?
>
>In the past, if you wanted RH, it was easy: just install the latest
>release.  Now there seem to be 3 options:
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>RH9 (features are getting dated, no?)
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Red Hat 9 is deprecated, and while the Fedora Legacy project (I believe) 
is picking up slack with security updates, you'll find that RH9 packages 
(especially for newer programs) are harder and harder to find.

>RH Enterprise WS (fork over $150+, but maybe it is worth it?)
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Red Hat Enterprise is the one half of the RH/Fedora 'forking'. RH 
decided to focus on the Enterprise; that is, the ability to charge money 
for their product, and reap more money in support, and let the desktop 
users fork off onto their own, being supported by the community instead 
of paid developers. The Desktop fork is Fedora. If you don't mine 
plunking down the cash for RHE, you can go ahead and pay for it. I 
imagine you'll get a year (or more, I haven't looked into this for a 
while) of updates for that money; I don't think it lasts forever.

>Fedora Core 1/2/3 (I can't tell if any of these are appropriate for
>home use in terms of security, stability, and continued availability of
>updates)
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Fedora is the desktop fork of the RH line; the 'versions' are basically 
like the RH 5/6/7/8/9/ line, where the newer, the better. They are 
supposed to have quarterly releases, with deprecation of the previous 
release with the newest one. So, with FC3 coming out, FC1 and FC2 
shouldn't be supported anymore. Updating from FC1 to FC2, and FC3 from 
FC1/FC2 is relatively painless using 'yum'.

The company I work for went the Fedora route; friends of mine who work 
at another company went the Red Hat Enterprise route (and got volume 
discounts, of course). For a workstation, I'd save the money and go with 
Fedora. It's kinda heavy, but FC2 and FC3 ran fine enough on my dual 400 
Mhz box with ~580 MB of RAM.

I personally run gentoo, but FC* is decent.

Adam


>RH Enterprise WS seems to be the safest bet, but isn't it currently
>just 1 release newer than RH9?  Is RH Enterprise WS worth $150+
>compared to RH9?
>
>Let me know if I should be posting this over at clue-talk instead and
>I'll resend it to there.
>
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