Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 25th Oct 2002 08:37 UTC
A month ago we published the world's exclusive review of Red Hat 8.0, Download Edition. In the meatime Red Hat, Inc. sent us a box of their newest product, Red Hat Professional. While the OS is pretty much the same as in the download edition and we have already made an extensive article on it, a few additional goodies await the customer in the box and we review them.
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What I get from the review By Eugenia Loli-Queru and some
of the subsequent messages is that the software in the
Professional box is essentially the same as that in the
Personal box (or the downloadable version), but that it
comes with the set of official Red Hat documentation.
Source code is useful only to a limited number of
advanced users, and the multi-media CD appears to be
rather useless, as it does not provide anything that
can't be obtained from the web anyway. I also agree that
the 2-month service period is most probably not useful,
if it is related only to installation issues, and if that
process is largely trivial anyway.
Surprisingly, nobody ever mentioned the 'System
Administrator Tools CD', which appears to be another main
difference between the two boxes. Since the Personal box
costs 39.95 USD and the set of books goes for 45.00 USD,
it is really critical to know whether that SysAdmin CD
is worth 65 USD (or the better part of that).
Could anyone list the contents of that mini-CD and
provide a clue as to its usefulness? Are there tricks
or activities, configurations, or other things that
can't be done without it? Thanks a lot for clarifying
this. Michel.