RED HAT SOFTWARE Red Hat Linux 9.0 Pro
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Software Reviews of RED HAT SOFTWARE Red Hat Linux 9.0 Pro
Customer Review: WAY better than SUSE
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay I tried SUSE because it was a little bit cheaper and I thought hey it should do the same things. I was wanting to just set up a testing server for sites Im making. I must of tried to get MySQL to install 10 times, using both the built in installer and the packages from the mysql website. NOTHING WORKED. So I got this version of Red Hat, installed simply, and EVERYTHING works! I admit I bought this more or less to play with, I use XP pro for virtually everything, but if you want a version of linux that works spend a little more to get Red Hat.Customer Review: Too Easy
Summary: 5 Stars
I have read the other reviews here and it's interesting to see the diverse knowledge gap with Linux. The bottom line is this version installs easily and configures quickly IF you read the install guide and TAKE YOUR TIME. It is important to understand what the machine will do before you install it no matter what OS you choose to use. There are tons of applications you can install and configure at install time that will make your life VERY easy. As for security - There is no way windows compares to this. Using firewall features such as iptables and TCP wrappers, you can lock down a RedHat Linux box a lot tighter than a windows box. Bottom line - Buy it. If you need help - ask and read.Customer Review: Great, but sound needs work and problems with kdevelop
Summary: 3 Stars
I am also a reviewer from Alaska.I really like RH 9, but seems I have never got sound to work on many different combos, whereas Mandrake had no problem with sound.
However, my main concern was when I installed "everything", kdevelop would not work correctly. In RH 7 it worked just fine...
Anyway, With the ease of installation you now get from the Linux distros, Windows needs to start getting it together, or it will slowly become history...
Customer Review: Do not buy this...Red Hat betrayed all of us!
Summary: 1 Stars
If you buy this you'll be buying a dead OS. Red Hat recently announced that there would be no more versions of Red Hat Linux released as shrinkwrapped software for home users. At the end of April 2004 you will no longer be able to get support on this distribution. Red Hat has sold its soul (the enthusiasts) for a new corporate support pricing model and more expensive "Enterprise" distributions. Buy SUSE and forget Red Hat.Customer Review: Red Hat Pro is a great System
Summary: 5 Stars
I have Red Hat 9 Professional, and of all the Linux distributions I have tried it is my favorite.It's all good news as far as setting up and using this distro. It detected ALL my hardware, (ls120 SuperDisk drive, Intel proV 100 onboard lan, onboard ct5880 sound, RAID/ATA/IDE bus channels, CD-RW, all 4 harddrives, etc...) It automatically configured my internet connection, sound, etc...
One caveat- if you have a broadband internet connection, (like me), you will have no problems.
If you have a slow internet connection, then getting the system up2date after installation would be a VERY long process.
If you have a slow internet connection, be sure to pare down the number of packages you want to use up2date to update.
If you have a slow internet connection, and install everything anyway :-), when you go to use the "up2date -u" command, (to update everything on your system automatically), you will be embarking on a very long journey because there's a lot of stuff on the 4 install CD's!
I heartily recommend this distro. It comes with good documentation, which is a dire neccessity with any Linux distro.
And it comes with 60 days High-Bandwidth acces for updates and downloads, so you can have a completely updated system as fast as your internet connection allows. Your 60 day high-bandwidth access also allows you fast downloads of any updated iso's in your channel, (your system architecture type, i.e. i386), see the "easy iso" section online, so you can download and burn an updated install cd, (or entire set), for instance.
I did that, and my download speed was a constant 200-210KB/second, which is as fast as my connection allows.
I recommend Red Hat 9 over Mandrake 9, Slackware, SuSe 8, and especially over Lycoris.
If you can't afford to buy Red Hat 9 pro just yet, consider Red Hat 9 personel, or download the red hat 9 iso's and use them for a while. You wont have the documentation on paper, but they will still give you a 7 day high-bandwidth access demo account to get up2dated with.
When you can afford it, buy the boxed set - for 3 reasons;
1. you'll be supporting a really good open-source company
2. you'll have the printed documentation
3. you'll have a full set of CD's, AND a DVD. 8 disks in all - 3 install, 3 source, 1 documentation, 1 multimedia and office apps, 1 DVD with all of the above on it, (I assume, I dont have a dvd drive :-))
Do yourself a favor and do NOT buy Lycoris Desktop/LX Amethyst 2.
Happy Linuxing!