Linked by paul pianta on Wed 2nd Apr 2003 17:43 UTC
This is by no means a technical review - it is just a summary of my experience as I was going along, installing and configuring a Red Hat Linux 9 machine. I installed the standard "workstation" installation on my 2 year old desktop machine. I like Gnome at home, KDE at work, but this review only covers my experience with the default Gnome installation.
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A linux distribution should always be stable. Actually Slackware, Debian, Mandrake and Red Hat have been rock-solid for me. Also FreeBSD and other not so popular operating systems I've tryed. Mostly it depends on the hardware you run them and on the configuration. Each one of them has bugs, errors, problems, but by most of them you can get by. To be honest I don't know why you are so impressed by RHs stability... Maybe you had bad experiences with other distros so far, I don't know. If you want stability and security get Debian or Slackware, if you want ease of use and to focues on productivity instead of configuration, get Mandrake. IMHO Red Hat Linux is for the developer, it always brings new technologies in every release, like NPTL implementation. That is why there are bugs ("errata") in the Red Hat distributions. Just my humble oppeinion.
Marc.