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Technical Review for Red Hat Linux 9

Posted by michael on from the what's-in-it-for-me dept.

ewilts writes "Dax Kelson from Guru Labs has posted a technical review for Red Hat Linux 9. It's a definite read if you want to get away from the marketing fluff that focuses on eye-candy and instead read about the release from a sysadmin's point-of-view."

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  1. Re:That's the april fool's joke by IronTek · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You certainly have a valid (or at least partially valid point there).

    I was really disappointed that my mod points expired the other day...I was hoping to have some for today! ...Such is life, I suppose.

  2. BitTorrent! by Professor+Bluebird · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've had BitTorrent going since last night, and I have about half of the ISOs so far.

  3. Multiple network profiles! Yay! by crush · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is one of the most immediately handy things about the new release. The ability to choose how interfaces behave via a grub boot menu item means that a laptop that is trundled around to be used in different places is now very easily usable without extra tweaking. No more hitting "I" for interactive boot to make sure that I skip "eth0" configuration when I power up on the train!

  4. This is... by frodo+from+middle+ea · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is the FP after completely reading the article
    Seriously a very nicely written article worth reading. This article has one thing i always look for in reviews of New distros. and this is diff. between OLD and NEW distros.
    Most s/w release notes has a section called "What's new", but this is grossly inadequate to make a decission whether to upgrade or not. What is needed is the exact diff. in terms of functionality rather than a CVS code change LOG. and this article makes an effort to provide that.
    Having said that, I just finished completely configuring and customising my RH8.0 so i guess I wont be upgrading. I will wait till 2.6 comes out. (I am speaking of the kernel version for those of you who dont get it)

    --
    for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
  5. BitTorrent by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yeah, it's not quite on topic, but I figured someone should mention it...

    As of this posting, 26 hours after it began being distributed via BitTorrent, 5400 people have received copies of the ISOs using that protocol, and over 11 terabytes of data have been transmitted over that torrent.

    There are now also torrents available for the source and documentation ISOs. To download either set, please visit f.scarywater.net.

  6. Re:This must be an April Fool's article... by dougmc · · Score: 3, Interesting
    ...considering that at 9KB/second nobody has gotten past ISO 2 of 3 to install and review the thing...
    Hardly.

    BitTorrent worked excellently, and I was pulling it down at 100-400 KB/s yesteday, and already have it burned. Haven't installed it yet, however ... but I could have!

  7. Re:What a review should be like by archen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Personally I think RedHat is shooting themselves in the foot with the short support cycle. The business I work for, for instance is a small buisness. There are customers who just want a Linux distro that gives them support - RPM and up2date lower the learning curve dramatically and can free a business to really start leveraging the power of Linux without worrying so much about watching for bug fixes and security holes. I certainly can't justify getting Redhat Enterprise for something like a small time webserver, backup server, file server or just serving junk like DHCP. And Linux can really shine in these areas.

    I also think Redhat is going to miss the boat on the corperate desktop, where everything is configured for the user, and remote administration is fairly easy. Now your going to migrate an entire organization workstation every year or so?