Hi everyone
here is subject close to my heart after digital SLRs, cars bikes and then ther is linux rather any unix. Now I am writing this review based on the simple fact tht Ihave been driving RHL in y company for the last 7 years and it has held the fort easily infact without blinking an eyelid correction without
further I am writing this review as a reeply to an earlier review which appearedto me in rather negative mode. I have used suse, mandrake an rhl nad m most comfortable with RHL. current I use 9. it is true hte ISO are hard ot get but instead just buy a CD set for about 200/-.
I use it for a firewall, mail server and proxy server and mind u im driving a user base of close to 1000 users distributed across the country in my corporate setup.
it is not easy to cut your teeth on the system sim, ply becos we are all used to the windows GUI variant but it can be real fun if u are intrested,
More over no UNIX system is built to serve the GUI desktop envoirnment till date even though we cn install RHL as a desktop and workstation it is no fun I aggree but but but .... drivea few services on it nad then you will sing its praises. I have driven a proxy server for 800 users for about 4 years on a PII 400 MHz system with 128MB RAM now I wnat ot see any so called proxy server running on that mode in microsoft world adn showing no signs of disk retention or lag.
Next I have and ma running Snendmail and now Postfix for email witha webmail inteface thrown in and it serves a base of 1000 odd users and I havea data flow about 30000 mails a day. all through one single box. Now this box is a simple ML150 server from HP with 4 GB RAM and Trend Micro AV loaded. The RAM is required fro Trend to operate normally else 1 GB was morethan suffice for mail alone. and finally myu fireall runs off on a Compaq PIII 600 MHz with 256 MB. now isnt that enough justification for its capapbility. and finally interms of admin capability I have this to say. STICK TO COMMAND LINE f or a nty unix system NO GUI!!!!!!!
bye and have fun