RedHat Linux Enterprise GNU

Omar Baqueiro

You might wish to go to the Red Hat web site and find out from the horse's mouth, as they say.

To oversimplify, RHEL 3 (and now, RHEL 4) are meant to be stable, reliable, distributions that are fully supported, and guaranteed to be supported for 5 years so that you will not be exposed to the continual changes you make when you update other distributions from one release to the next. You do have to make those changes when you go from RHEL 3 to RHEL 4, but you can skip a bunch of those releases if you want and upgrade only every 4 to 5 years if this suits your needs.

OTOH, my impression of Fedora Core 2 is that they try to be bleeding-edge, updating frequently, and with stuff that does not always work very well. For example, while CUPS could print to the locally attached printer, it would not print from the other machine (running RHEL3) on the LAN, so I had to downgrade to RHL9 to get CUPS to work. Also, the ISA Soundblaster card (5 years old) could not be detected and would not work even though it worked on RHL7.3 and RHL9.

This is well suited to the hobbyist who enjoys playing around more than he needs to get actual work done, and who gets a feeling of satisfaction of running the latest and greatest.

No. See Red Hat's web site:

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