Re: help - RHEL4 or RHEL5 ?

On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 17:17 -0400, Tancredi Botto wrote:
> Dear experts. I am getting a workstation at work. The choice will be either
> rhel4 or rhel5 but I will have sudo all (nice !) and Windows will be on an
> external disk.
> 
> I am quite content with KDE-3.5.xx and I do not see me switching to KDE-4 for
> several more months. Certainly I need up-to-date OO, FFox and PIM software,
> and in addition, I have to think of whatever will make survival in an msoft
> exchange-server world easier. It is not that I can't compile, it's that I
> rather not.. of course. So, I have two general questions:
> 
> _ Which RHEL version would you recommend in terms of desktop support ?
> 
> By looking at your repo's I wondered if RHEL5 packages are just once in a
> lifetime kind of events, or if they are on same level as RHEL4.
> 
> 
> _ What apt list, servers do you recommend ? Where could I get this info ?
> 
> 
> Many thanks, I appreciate your help, and of course, the heroic efforts at
> kde-redhat.
> 

RHEL 5, hands down.
Just make sure you get the "Workstation" version. (Or, if you don't
require support - CentOS5.)

- Gilboa



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