LOL. You don't even read your own posts. You said the entire family--not product line.
BTW--I don't take wikipedia as gospel, and neither do you when it suits you to disagree.
I shouldn’t be surprised you boys constantly get everything wrong, what should I expect from those that dedicate themselves to such a pathetic cause.
http://linuxfinances.info/info/redhat.html
Red Hat Linux - This “family” of distributions...is being discontinued; come 2004.
I manage a Win2k environment, and I have been looking at Linux for the future.
I took one of our stock units, an HP Vectra VL420 (which really is based on an ASUS mb) with a 1.6Ghz P4 and 512MB RAM. That machine works just fine with Win2K, or XP (which we have not been using). Only add-ons are a USB 2.0 card and external DVD, USB HD and Epson inkjet printer.
I did a simple install of SuSE 10.1 with Gnome, and found programs taking forever to start up. Evolution and Firefox were horrendously slow, especially Firefox, and many basic sites (e.g. Mapquest and IMDB) would not load at all (tests were conducted at home with wireless 384kb connection, same connection works fine with XP and 2K). I couldn’t get WINE to install at all. OpenOffice worked adequately.
I am sure I am doing something wrong. How does one optimize a friendly version of Desktop Linux? In theory, I thought it would be more responsive than bloated XP. So far I have not found that to be the case. Does anybody make a desktop distro that is actually optimized for the desktop?
P.S. I do not have religious zeal for any of the big players. I do not like Microsoft’s licensing and pricing structure. We use WordPerfect Office at work, but need (for now) Windows for our c/s Acct software.
I am ready to be persuaded, and am picking Free Republic, because conservatives are more honest people on all things, not just politics.