One thing you forgot to mention was that RH has lots of excellent
spell-checkers. Oh, wait a minute, looking at your message, it's
painfully obvious that you don't know about them.
--
Bill
On Fri, 2 May 2003, Thomas D. Ward wrote:
> Hi, I can certainly tell you the features that are important to me, and why
> I use Red Hat aposed to another such as Slack or Debian.Here are my top Red
> Hat features in no particular order.
>
> 1. Red Hat has several methods of installation which often times is
> invaluible. You have the kickstart install which is a text file with
> commands which allows Red Hat to be installed automatically without you
> having to answer any questions, and installed the way you like including
> formatting, making partitions, etc. Another install method is over a telnet
> connection. This is vary helpful when speakup can't be used, and you need an
> accessible way to install. The last install method is by linking two
> computers together by the serial ports, and doing a terminal install. Also
> helpful when speakup can't be used for install.
> 2. Red Hat is a vary large distrobution, and you can get an rpm binary of a
> program for just about anything. some comercial programs, businesses, target
> Red Hat users, and won't garentee there product on other distros such as
> Debian.
> 3. Red Hat was one of the first distros to come compiled with gcc 3.x, and
> any programs compiled with 3.x will not work with libs build with older
> versions of gcc. Debian has been dragging it's feet on getting with the
> program and getting a distro built with gcc 3.2 which they need to be to be
> compatible with new programs.
> 4. Red Hat has one of the best hardware manigement and configuration tools I
> have found. The kudzu program basically sets up all of your hardware it can
> find, and in the case of an os compatible sound card you can use sndconfig
> to configure your sound.
> 5. I need X-windows for allot of things a5. Red Hat's X-Windows
> configuration tools are unmatched. It will probe for your monitor, vidio
> card, and attempt to configure X all by itself with a few minor questions.
> I've found Debians setup for X to be a nightmare, and far out dated.
> 6. Red Hat is vary easy to turn on and off services. You don't have to edit
> files to turn on say apache. Just type service httpd start and it
> automatically comes up.
> You can even specify what run levels you want a service to run in weather it
> is 3 5 or whatever.
> 7. Red Hat has become a well known distro at IBM, Del, Intel, just to name
> names. They are investing in that distro, and you can expect it to succeed
> while less known distros become less used, and less known.Some small less
> known distros may die out leaving the popular ones to stay standing.
>
> Summary
> I think Red Hat's popularity stems from good marketing, attempting to add
> the ease of use of MS Windows, and target the group of people who want
> something like Windows, but isn't Windows.
> Debian is a traditional sort of Linux which doesn't try to cash in by making
> a distro to compete with Windows, one that is a do it yourself os, and
> targets their users, and if anyone joins that group they say, "good." If not
> they say, "oh, well..."
>
>
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