CPU Review evaluates Redhat 6.0

fusion94 writes "CPU Review evaluates Redhat 6.0 and gives it an overall grade of "A". The full article can be found at CPU Review. " Check it out, if you like that sort of thing.

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Redhat 6.0 gets an A? Bah!

[Hrunting]

I think the review was an overly simplified view of a highly atypical Redhat installation. The person obviously doing the review has quite a bit more clue than even the average new Linux user if he's choosing fdisk over Disk Druid. While he continually makes reference to how easy it is to setup Redhat from a new user's standpoint, all of the recommendations and methods he gives are for advanced users, not newbies. I'm surprised that he didn't go more into Redhat's recommendations for setting up swap space and disk partitions. In fact, I'm surprised that he didn't simply follow Redhat's guide for new installations rather than simply doing it his way. I wonder if the installation would've gone as smoothly. A better review would've installed the Workstation setup to see if it worked as advertised since that's what a "typical" installation should be. His "nice" GNOME desktop took a little work to get setup. How easy is that for a newbie? Who knows, but I bet it's more difficult than the phrase that he gave it.

I'm not trying to badmouth Redhat 6.0. In fact, I'm running it now off an upgrade from Redhat 5.2. The upgrade didn't go as smoothly as I would've liked, mainly because I have a bastardized system consisting of weird partitioning, symlinks, and non-RPM installations. I could give a D to their upgrade process in a nice fancy format like CPUReview, but why? My experiences are probably due more to the way I set things up than to Redhat's merits. Their review is the same way. A much more valid review would come from someone who truly was new to Linux, or at least to Redhat. Then you find out how easy it really is to partition space, understand the instructions, and use a Window Manager.

Personally, I give RH6 about a B, B-. I give this review a D+, enough to pass, but not enough to mean anything more than it was done.

NOTE: of course, with the ever-increasing number of test cases of Linux in the computer media community, it's getting tough to find someone green enough to function as a "Linux newbie".

Re:Redhat 6.0 gets an A? Bah!

[cale]

I'd rather have a non-newbie review something for once. I am getting kind of sick of reading reviews of distros and having them all soley aimed at the newbies. I have installed linux a bunch of times and been using it for a while, I want a review of the distro that might actually tell me something about it instead of the normal newbie crap.

Just my $.02

6.0 is better, but ...

[cthonious]

Enlightenment is still flaky, and not even close to being complete. You need to write your own themes to change anything, and the default themes have widgets that are too small (to me) for any res above 800x600.

I wish RH included more window maker stuff, since that is by far the best wm out there (they have window maker, but no dock apps, you still need to go download a ton of crap to get a nice window maker setup).

At least they dropped that awful FVWM95 crap, and windowmaker is at least the default wm for the "Another Level" setup.

The biggest difference with the install is that the package selection is a LOT better.

Still no xemacs. Why?

Still no /opt; so KDE won't work with the added "switchdesk" tools unless you install it to the Red Hat locations.

They added /misc and /net ... weird. Who thought that up?

Still the rogue file locations as always.