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Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 with Workstation and Multi-OS Option
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 6:43 pm
by 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.
Re: Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 with Workstation and Multi-OS Option
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 7:06 am
by 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.
Re: Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 with Workstation and Multi-OS Option
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 7:18 pm
by 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
Re: Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 with Workstation and Multi-OS Option
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 3:15 pm
by 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.
Re: Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 with Workstation and Multi-OS Option
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 12:42 am
by tylerwylie
ThinkRob wrote: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.