Comment what do you expect for a lame distribution? (Score 0) 472
I'm not surprised to hear this. What's interesting is redhat's statement, "too tough". What? Okay, so you do a RHEL default install, the POC installs with GUI enabled. Getting X up can be a sobering experience. But Redhat seems to do that fine! So what else can there be? Ahh, maybe it's that old rhetoric redhat used when SuSE beat them to the market with Xen. Wasn't it something like "Xen isn't ready"? Redhat wants to stay with server software, no desktops? Personally, I think their "Server/Enterprise" software is crap. The damned thing defaults to GUI mode. I've done enough remote Linux admin to know you DO NOT want to try and tunnel X over an ssh session, runs like shit. Okay, so just turn off X, set runlevel to 3. Now try and run some of their disparate system-config-splat tools, some will work, some will not, without X running. What gives?
So now, Lenovo is making laptops available with SuSE Enterprise 10 (http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/systemconfig.runtime.workflow:LoadRuntimeTree?sb=:00000025:00001398:&smid=F2F5363C71FA4D61B176AD5FB80FA5D8)
Gosh, I wonder what secret sauce Lenovo has that Redhat hasn't figured out yet?
I've been installing Linux on laptops and desktops since the early 1990's, (ya, around kernel version 0.7) even with PCMCIA support, and I can tell you, the process can be a bitch. But everyone's doing it. So why does redhat still insist "too tough". Looks to me like Redhat's falling into the Redmond hole. Don't waste your time with RedHat, use a release that's better suited for server systems, like Debian, or SuSE. At least SuSE will give you a consistent admin interface, capable of running GUI or TEXT modes! And if you want a desktop/laptop, SuSE is awesome (I've been running it on a variety of hardware for the past 8 years).
So now, Lenovo is making laptops available with SuSE Enterprise 10 (http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/systemconfig.runtime.workflow:LoadRuntimeTree?sb=:00000025:00001398:&smid=F2F5363C71FA4D61B176AD5FB80FA5D8)
Gosh, I wonder what secret sauce Lenovo has that Redhat hasn't figured out yet?
I've been installing Linux on laptops and desktops since the early 1990's, (ya, around kernel version 0.7) even with PCMCIA support, and I can tell you, the process can be a bitch. But everyone's doing it. So why does redhat still insist "too tough". Looks to me like Redhat's falling into the Redmond hole. Don't waste your time with RedHat, use a release that's better suited for server systems, like Debian, or SuSE. At least SuSE will give you a consistent admin interface, capable of running GUI or TEXT modes! And if you want a desktop/laptop, SuSE is awesome (I've been running it on a variety of hardware for the past 8 years).
