I had mandrake installed on my home computer partitioned with windows xp. Its good but i want to try something differernt, redhat had some video card difficulties with my computer so i had to discard that.

If anyone has had any experience with the Fedora GUI, is it better than mandrake 9.2?

Personally, I perfer Slackware. Yes I know it is not "newbie" friendly. I started out with that without knowing one bit on how to run/use Linux. I may still be a "newbie" but I can get my arround it pretty well on my own.

If you want to try out Linux, I suggest "Linux In a Nutshell" By O'Reilly. I have the second edition. It's a great book :)

Our servers run fedora so i would like to get used to it more. Thanks for your feedback anyway.

I believe currently Fedora is for more personal use and not server related. I'm not saying it can't run on a server, but wouldn't Redhat ES be more suitable for a server?

If your server runs Fedora, Why do you care about the GUI? Wouldn't you use the command line?

Redhats life is over soon. :bawling: So, it wouldnt be in the best interests to put it on servers now.

I don't think you'll want Fedora for home use. I REALLY don't think that you'll want Fedora on your server(s) unless you know what the hell your doing...

Its beta, its buggy, its a test bed for RHE.



There are lots of linux distros, you can put debian, or slack' or gentoo, or SuSE at home.

I don't see why you want to use Fedora other then to help develop it.

The whole linux core is basically the same. I don't know if you have physically access to your server, if you don't then the GUI won't matter as you would use the command line primarily. Any linux flavor will do the job if you want to practice. If you know what you are doing you won't use the preinstalled packages for your services, you would compile them from scratch.

Nocster offers Redhat, Fedora, FreeBSD, RHE and windows. Since redhat was near end of life, RHE seemed to have some compatibility problems, and we were advised not to use FreeBSD and windows is well... windows we though Fedora seemed like the best option.

Of those, I'd choose FreeBSD for a server. :)

For home use, I like slack.

Why do you say Redhat is nearing the end of it's life? Just because it stopped providing free software and started charging the market that really counts? I would think quite the opposite. Since Redhat is now for paying customers only, they will focus more on development and support. I'm sure RedHat will be here for a long time to come.

Although, i'm not going to tell you how to run your hosting company/business.

Originally posted by RDX Media
Why do you say Redhat is nearing the end of it's life? Just because it stopped providing free software and started charging the market that really counts? I would think quite the opposite. Since Redhat is now for paying customers only, they will focus more on development and support. I'm sure RedHat will be here for a long time to come.

I agree. :)
I just have a Q'... WHO said that?

RH9 servers did not go offline... they are still alive and kicking...

Originally posted by Flammable
Redhats life is over soon. :bawling:

:)

Originally posted by Flammable
Nocster offers Redhat, Fedora, FreeBSD, RHE and windows. Since redhat was near end of life, RHE seemed to have some compatibility problems, and we were advised not to use FreeBSD and windows is well... windows we though Fedora seemed like the best option.

Why were you advised against FreeBSD? We have been using it since December without problems. Infact it performs better than Red Hat in terms of average server loads.