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Is Red Hat still relevant? You bet. (Montana Linux)
Scott Dowdle examines the
continued relevance of Red Hat. "I recently attended a Linux
Installfest and the primary distribution recommended by those heading up
the event was Ubuntu. That's all well and good but during their Linux
dog-and-pony-show a statement was made regarding Red Hat that struck me. I
don't recall the exact wording that was used but it was something along the
lines of... Red Hat used to be very popular but not anymore. I wasn't
really offended by the statement nor do I completely disagree with
it... but a lot remains to be said about the importance of Red Hat within
the Linux community. Red Hat is certainly king in the "Enterprise" space
with Novell a respectable second."
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Is Red Hat still relevant? You bet. (Montana Linux) Posted Jan 8, 2008 11:35 UTC (Tue) by danielhedblom (guest, #47307) [Link] RedHats way of using Fedora as a testbed for their products is both good and bad. Its bad in the way that it makes for a distribution thats halfway between normal desktop users and serious server installations. SE-Linux can really throw sticks in the wheels for desktop users while its a very nice feature for servers where things are a bit more static than a desktop. Hopefully Redhats new endeavour into the desktop will fix this since they will have an internal need for a smooth user experience again. I wouldnt call Novell a respectable second. Their package management system is just utterly broken and routinly break my servers, even when doing simple updates. RedHat is really king and i would rather put debian/ubuntu as a close second.
Is Red Hat still relevant? You bet. (Montana Linux) Posted Jan 10, 2008 14:44 UTC (Thu) by NRArnot (subscriber, #3033) [Link] It's worth giving CentOS a mention. It's basically Red Hat Enterprise Linux recompiled. You don't have to pay for it, and can pay whomsoever you like for support or rely on the community. It is a perfect substitute for what free Red Hat ...7,8,9 used to offer. My experience is that it is as rock-solid as official (paid-for) Red Hat, and I'd recommend it to anyone who doesn't need the sort of support that Red Hat sell (or a guarantee that there is someone behind the product to sue when things go wrong, which I believe is the mentality in some companies!) Red Hat still relevant? Definitely. Even if you don't use their products or direct derivatives thereof, they contribute large amounts of open software to the community. Whatever flavour of Linux you use, there are important parts of it that originate with Red Hat.
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