RHEL & Fedora Comparison

[Collins Richey]

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:17:37 -0600 Michael Hipp <Michael at Hipp.com> wrote:

> Red Hat finally put up a fairly well done side-by-side comparison 
> between RH Enterprise Linux, Fedora and the now discontinued RH Linux.
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/software/rhelorfedora/
> 

I put up a copy a few days ago and ran it for a few days using the default Gnome
and Evolution.  It's not a bad distro.  Easy to install, but a few fatal flaws. 
It failed to detect my NIC as a Tulip card (picked some off the wall choice),
but it did select the appropriate OSS module form my soundcard, and the printer
was setup automatically.

Also, you get no choice about maintaining your own bootloader!  I had to let
fedora install its own version of grub (fancy screen format and all) then
remerge the grub.conf entries after rebooting.

Uses apm (instead of the newer acpi, and surprisingly enough it works.

I made the mistake of signing up (for a day or two) for the fedora email list. 
Lots of good info, but 400 posts a day!

Bleeding edge?  No way!  There's nary a 2.6 kernel in sight.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the 
worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.