OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19463/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_5_2_Beta_Available Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:17:03 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Red Hat wasn't there http://osnews.com/thread?304789 http://osnews.com/thread?304789 I missed you guys at CeBIT in Hannover last week.
Any people out there affiliated with Red Hat that can explain what the motives were not to go there?
Just curious.
Love your OS, RHEL 5.2 won't shock the planet but 5 has disappointed very few since it came out.Edited 2008-03-12 21:59 UTC Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (h3rman) Comments Release notes: http://osnews.com/thread?304921 http://osnews.com/thread?304921 https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-announce/2008-March/msg00000....

- Gilboa Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gilboa) Comments RE: Red Hat wasn't there http://osnews.com/thread?305270 http://osnews.com/thread?305270
... but 5 has disappointed very few since it came out.


I can't say that I agree.
I find RHEL to be far better (both RHEL/server and Cent5/desktop) then RHEL4.

Any particular reasons for the disappointment?

- Gilboa Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gilboa) Comments RE[2]: Red Hat wasn't there http://osnews.com/thread?305306 http://osnews.com/thread?305306 Sorry for the misunderstanding.
I meant the opposite, very few people, I think, were disappointed with RHEL 5.
RHEL 5 is great.
It's my main system for both server and desktop (well, CentOS that is, 100% binarily compatible of course). Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (h3rman) Comments RE[3]: Red Hat wasn't there http://osnews.com/thread?305365 http://osnews.com/thread?305365 Oh OK.

P.S. I share your problem. While RHEL5 is an excellent server distribution (and we use it for testing and production), CentOS is a far better workstation/desktop distribution.

Having no OpenOffice (and huge chunks of KDE missing) in the RHEL5 "server" is very annoying. (And our purchase department rather no get the "workstation/multi OS" SKU)

It would have been nice if RedHat would have retained the "Desktop" software channel.

- Gilboa Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gilboa) Comments