Need Kindly Support to Answer Red Hat Enterprise Linux Question!

[thomas anderson]

Hello Everyone!

My name is Anderson. I am working on Red Hat Linux project; I need your kindly support to response these questions in below. I also attach the questions in Microsoft Word. Please do answer it if you know any of these question answers with your best knowledge. I will really appreciate to everyone who will answer these questions. You can response your answer at thms_anderson@yahoo.com


Are you using any reactualizations software, if so which one and why. Also, wondering, if you are using any J2EE Server, if so which one and why?

What do you think about RHEL 5 beta 2


What do you like and what don't you like in RHEL 5 Beta 2



What do you think would be the key reasons for customers to use RHEL5


Is migrating from RHEL 4 to RHEL 5 straight forward or are there issues, how about from RHEL 3 to RHEL 5


Are you seeing Red Hat doing anything different with RHEL 5 release
Do you think people will upgrade to RHEL 5


Who do you think is the main competition and who do you think will win and why


Regard
Anderson

[Roxoff]

Hi Thomas, welcome to the board.

Before I start can I just prod you a little - it could be considered quite insulting to come on a Linux board like this and post a document that you created yourself asking for help but uing Microsoft Word format for the document... (no so bothered myself, but you might be surprised how much disk space you save if you create that same document in OpenOffice and save it in OO's native format; I saved it out as a .odt, and it was half the size.)

Anyway, on to my answers...

RHEL5 beta 2? I've not used it, so I cant comment on what I think about it or what I like and dont like.

The key reasons for using it? Well there are two key reasons: firstly existing customers will get an automatic upgrade, they're already paying a lot of money for it, and they'll need to keep ahead of any security issues or package advancement that helps them. Secondly, new customers will use it because they're almost entirely corporations of some kind, and require the support packages that come with the OS; you can get support on boards like this and from the massive community, but corporations need guaranteed answers on a deadline.

Migrating? I doubt there'd be many migrations issues; whenever I've moved from any version of RedHat (or Fedora Core) to a later one, it's always been smooth and clean. Even my CentOS 4.3 (community supported RHEL 4.3) went to 4.4 without my doing anything above my normal update cycle.

RedHat doing anything different with 5? From what I understand RHEL5 is based on Fedora Core 6; and I'll be honest, FC6 is spectacular. I've never before had such a polished distribution from Fedora. Sure there are bugs about, but I've not encountered a single one. People will upgrade to RHEL5, because of their support contracts, and because its likely to be automatic.

The main competition to RHEL? I suspect you're asking what are the commercial distribution alternatives for a Linux server here - because you're clearly not considering Windows Server (and I'd recommend you never do, but that's my own opinion) which is the real competition. I hear SuSE have a commercial server distro (I'd never ever recommend SuSE to anyone - and I believe the situation is worse now Novell are in cahoots with Microsoft). There are others to take a look at; Debian is one of the most solid distros out there; Ubuntu also has a commercial server variant too, I believe (and is good if you like brown), Slackware is a bit of an animal to tame but is bomb-proof when done, and if you dont need the support, then you could look at CentOS, which is RHEL compatible. The best place to look for this info, though, is on Distrowatch.

Oh and in the Linux server v Linux server battle? There will be only one winner: GNU/Linux.