RHEL 3 ES vs RHEL 4 ES vs RHEL 5 ES

sweetcorn · 11-03-2008, 09:57 AM

greetings all,
i have RHEL 3 ES,4 ES,5 ES installation CD's.I want to be able to connect ot the ineternet by wifi connection.which of the RHEL's should i install.

and i need tutorial/web sites for installing the chosien os

TB0ne · 11-03-2008, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by sweetcorn

greetings all,
i have RHEL 3 ES,4 ES,5 ES installation CD's.I want to be able to connect ot the ineternet by wifi connection.which of the RHEL's should i install.

and i need tutorial/web sites for installing the chosien os

Any of them will...pick one. And be sure your hardware is supported under Linux.

You don't say what kind of hardware you're installing on, but try http://www.google.com for tutorials on getting things loaded. And since you have the enterprise linux, you can always call RedHat for support.

sweetcorn · 11-03-2008, 12:15 PM

hi,
hardware:dell latitude D510,intel pro/wireless ,40gb(20 for rhel)

pick one of the rhel's for me.thanks
alot.

John VV · 11-03-2008, 12:20 PM

if you are going with RHEL then use 5.2 ,or is it 5.3 know .

anomie · 11-03-2008, 12:28 PM

Read and understand the production life cycles before making a version decision: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/

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Originally Posted by sweetcorn

I want to be able to connect ot the ineternet by wifi connection.which of the RHEL's should i install.

If that is your only requirement, I'd say you want the latest and greatest. (And I'd also ask what made you choose RHEL for this purpose rather than the newbie-friendly Ubuntu or one of its offspring.)

sweetcorn · 11-03-2008, 01:14 PM

hi,
i have been using suse 10.3 now i want the "more robost" (not really a fresh new-bie
suse is ok,but i need hard core,robost,widely used

TB0ne · 11-03-2008, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by sweetcorn

hi,
i have been using suse 10.3 now i want the "more robost" (not really a fresh new-bie
suse is ok,but i need hard core,robost,widely used

SuSE is widely used and supported. RHEL enterprise on a laptop won't give you much, and actually not be the best use of your hardware. You've got a better chance of CentOS, Ubuntu, or OpenSuSE being able to support laptop-specific hardware, than you do of RHEL, which is geared towards 'real' servers.