I was wondering how many people have used red hat linux enterprise.. and of those people i was wondering what are the thoughts of the distro.


I also wondering how many people tried are use fedora project from red hat.. and again of those people.. i was wondering what are the thoughts of the specific distro.

For general opinions.. I was wondering what are some opinions when it comes to which is better..

I actually paid 100 dollars to use enterprise.. and I dont think it's that great. Even if you install the kernel so that you can configure it.. it doesn't come with a .configure file. Well to the knowledge I have.. (warning i am a newb).

For those who actually have red hat linux enterprise running.. and running well..
I was wondering if we can have direct conversations.. because I can't get a pctel win modem to work nor can i get the wlan working either.

andox; why narrow u field of distros, there are lots more to choose from. true
RH & FC are more popular but after reading most text on RH decided to go with mdk; now satisfied with it. started
at 7.1 upgraded 8.1,8.2 & 9.2. awaiting
settleing of 10 to stabilize before installing. have seen stormix, debian & others not my cup of coffee nor tea. so try as many as u can then settle for what suit u best.

Currently I have a laptop..

and in the past with red hat linux i've a lot easier time install on the laptop.. true I haven't tried others.. and after what you sed im interested..

but with other distros.. are they as compatible as red hat is?
which ones?

i have a dell laptop.. and limited internet access..
I have a wlan from netgear that I want to use.. would another distro be easier?

what would u suggest according to my criterea?

i have to download all driver via internet or thru burning cds..

andox; two places that might be of help.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/index.html to find which of ur devices r compatible with linux(any distro). check each device. other is with
mdk at mandrake home site using HCL(hardware conpatibility list).

THANX

i have another questions.. why do they have the "i386" or the "i586" .. for ex. ISO image i586 and higher processors. wat does that mean?

what is the difference between srpms and i586 for mandrake?
so the same with red hat.. i386 and srpms.. which is better to dl? which one is the right one?

i've tried to download slack ware but it seems I need linux to create the image files.

i want to try mandrake 9.2 but im haveing a hardtime finding the files i need.

do i need all the src.rpms?
or are they simple like red hat where it's 4 files for 4 cds?

I tried RH9 and k12ltsp which is fedora with ltsp already installed seemed buggy. mandrake is better in my experieces with the 2 distros but unless you have an old cpu you would be better off with a distro that the packages are compile for i686 I know yopers does and is suppose to be really fast

andox; i386 is 3rd generation intel cpu
i486 4th generation intel cpu which made them compatible with linux at first start, i586 non-intel cpu. now compatible
with ADM & other cpu,s. that is all information i have.

i586 would be pentium, k6-2, or k6-3 while newer cpus would be i686 except for the 64bit cpus

how would u kno if that's the right thing or not? im not too sure of the specifics on this laptop

cat /proc/cpuinfo will tell you

uname -a
Part of the output will be the processor.

I don't care for RH9, RHEL or Fedora. Bottom of the barrel as far as distros (IMHO).

ya see im not running on linux right now with this laptop.. i had to run it under windows so i can go online.

andox; i,m confused? which is what ur attempting to do or ask? nomeclature of processors or laptops. they are too different devices which is most immediate need? may be from original ?
undecided which distro to choose for laptop? all devices have compatibility issues , research which work best with linux. the answers will clear choices.