RH Enterprise

Do you use it?

[henry0]

I use presently RH 9 to dev my web works using PHP and MySQL
And the Quanta editor

Did anyone install RH enterprise on a local machine and does it come with the
Above mentioned PHP, MySQL and Quanta etc..

I would like giving a try to RH Enterprise but I cannot find if it comes bundled with my tools

Thanks

Henry

[SeanW]

When you buy RHEL, you're buying the support. Unless you're on a big hoarking server and/or running Oracle, you won't notice the difference.

Generally, if it's in the free version of Red Hat/Fedora, it'll be in RHEL (yes, RHEL lags the free version somewhat, so if it's bleeding edge, then maybe not...)

Sean

[quebrada]

Have you considered Debian?

It is free and can be found at [debian.org...]

All of the software you mentioned can be installed as a package once the OS is up and running.

I used to run Red Hat and BSD but have moved over to Debian. The install is a little harder but once you get used to it things are pretty smooth.

[denisdekat]

No plan on ever using RedHat again ;) I hate it when a company abandons their support for older products the way they did. I would still use RH7.3 or 9 and use www.freshrpms.net with apt-get to keep them up to date. I see no reason to pay 300+ for an open source OS :D

We are also setting up new stuff with debian and so far we like it better ;)

[SeanW]

Re: Red Hat...

While I'm annoyed at them for a few things, Fedora works great, and I'll be sticking with them for a while. We've got 20 odd Linux boxes here at work, most of them are going to Fedora, and only the Domino ones are using RHEL, mostly because of an IBM requirement than our need to have a "supported" OS.

As far as I'm concerned, even if RH drops Fedora completely and leaves it to the community, we're no worse off than Debian from a supportability standpoint. Yum can take care of all the updates and upgrades necessary...

Sean

[henry0]

Thanks all for your inputs

Sorry, I did not intend starting a "love it hate it debate"!
Henry

PS)
When I started walking away from MS I used RH
I will keep a RH environment

[HybernaTe]

how bout trying a real OPEN SOURCE solution FEDORA (Yarrow) had been stable for months already and im using it as one of my linux box in my web development!

i give Yarrow AAA+++