Re: RedHat

• Santosh Varma <vsantosh_at_psi.soft.net>

> I wanted to know what is this RedHat, its significance and its features.
> Any links/doc's on that ???

It is the most common "corporate" Linux distribution out there. The people at RH worked with Oracle, IBM, Sybase, and other package vendors to help them port their various products to linux. Net result is that RH is the "standard" distro for most packages to be vetted on for linux.

The distribution has some tradeoffs. It is generally easier to manage than the others but doesn't match Mandrake for capacity to locate and correctly configure new equipment. If you need speed, Mandrake is probably a better bet.

Information on linux in general and the varous distro's are available at www.linux.org, www.redhat.com, www.tummy.com, or under varous points on your favorite search engine.

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