Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 with Workstation and Multi-OS Option

[epr02]

Thinking of creating a dual boot system and was curious if anyone had installed and tried out Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5.4 with Workstation and Multi-OS options.

[tylerwylie]

It just uses Grub, though I believe the label means they will support it and help you get that working? It should be relatively easy nonetheless as long as you do a little bit of reading and homework beforehand.

[kiwipad]

Not tried RHEL but if it's half as good as the Fedora its based on, should be good!

You do know RHEL is a "commercial" Linux (i.e. you'll be paying for it) and that it is intentionally built on older foundations (the idea being better stability and a longer lifecycle) - v5 was originally released early 2007. The new Fedora release (12) is rock-solid even on both my older TPs, despite being "cutting-edge"

Re. dual-booting, have a read around potential issues when Win7 gets its service pack releases; apparently Vista SPs broke some grub-managed multi-boot environments on installation ("apparently" because I was never "lucky" enough to run Vista) - something to do with the in-flight reboot need.

IG

[ThinkRob]

Personally, I'd skip RHEL and go with CentOS. It's the same product, with the exception of the branding and the price tag.

[tylerwylie]

Personally, I'd skip RHEL and go with CentOS. It's the same product, with the exception of the branding and the price tag.

I use CentOS for my servers/machines. RHEL is for people who want professional enterprise support, access to the RHN, etc.