Re: Red Hat qestion...

From: Scott (scott_at_somewhere.invalid)
Date: 12/08/03 

Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 22:36:44 +0000

On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 19:42:19 -0700, ray <ray@zianet.com> wrote:

>Mike wrote:
>> hi.
>>
>> i want to install a red hat partition on my hd. went to redhat.com and its
>> kinda confusing. they have this enterprise edition. and red hat 9. but
>> neither version mentions gnome or kde desktops. they mention this
>> "bluecurve interface".
>>
>> does anybody know anything about redhat enterprize or redhat 9?
>>
>> do these two versions come without gnome or kde?
>>
>> would i be in trouble without gnome or kde? i sometimes see linux software
>> that lists one of these desktops as a requirement.
>>
>> should i consider buying an older version of red hat?
>>
>> thank you for whatever help.
>>
>>
>
>Actually, you'd be better off going somewhere else. RH has announced it
>will drop support for all of the RH products up to and including v 9 by
>April of '04. They will only support the commercial version, although
>you will still be able to download the developmental version (renamed
>'Fedora'). Suggest you go to Mandrake or SuSE instead.

A little knowledge is a bad thing. Redhat are continuing development
of both enterprise and community versions of their OS'. "Fedora" is
the equivelent of Redhat 10. The network updater will still function
etc just as before. 

-- 
Scott (RHCE ;-)

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