RED HAT Professional Edition (S W) WKST W 30DAY Support CD-ROM

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• ASIN: B0000D8IXJ
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 11, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,949 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #42 in Software > Operating Systems > Microsoft Windows > Windows XP
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Red Hat Professional Workstation is a complete suite of tools for the power desktop user.

• Supports up to two processors x 86 workstations
• Includes applications and services power-desktop users demand
• Bluecurve, Ximian Evolution, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla
• Web server powered by Apache
• Samba, NFS, CUPS
• GCC 3.2
• Includes one year of Red Hat Network updates
• Includes 30 days of phone and Web installation support
• Operating system
• Office suite
• Internet, email, and graphics applications
• 9 CDs with full documentation and source code

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Different distros have different strengths, June 12, 2004

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R. Grannemann (Benbrook, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RED HAT Professional Edition (S W) WKST W 30DAY Support CD-ROM (CD-ROM)

Here is an update of what I've decided:

I use Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a home desktop OS because that is what we use at work. Also Red Hat is very strong if you are going to run it as a server - not as a workstation. If you do programming with non-gcc compilers, like Intel's compiler, Red Hat is a good distro because it has strong compiler support (by Intel). Some people have trouble getting Intel's compiler to work right on a Debian based system like Xandros. But SUSE would be fine in this regard. Also, Red Hat gives virtually no worthwhile phone or email support. But I doubt the other distros give any worthwhile support either. You can also get about the same thing from Red Hat by getting their free Fedora edition. Red Hat's new Wide Open magazine will help you learn more about this and other Red Hat packages, but again you won't get any hand holding. I'm not sure they even print a decent book any more, just giving you that annoying pdf file edition that you have to scroll back and forth and never know where you are at or where anything is and can't make any notes in.

I'm thinking now for a desktop distro for the Windows type lover, Xandros might be the best distro. It doesn't change very often, and they have concentrated on the desktop, rather than on the server like Red Hat. However, Xandros only works on 386 architecture, whereas Red Hat supports AMD64, Opteron, Itanium, and other CPU chips. So don't get it if you are a engineering type person who is dreaming about doing serious 64 bit computation at home someday, or a gamer who whats 64 bits.

SUSE falls somewhere in between. I think as a desktop product it is a bit better than Red Hat. It has fairly good non-gcc compiler support. It works well as a server, but not as strong as Red Hat.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hats off for Red Hat, January 18, 2004

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Ludovit Tatos "cleaverx" (Arlington, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RED HAT Professional Edition (S W) WKST W 30DAY Support CD-ROM (CD-ROM)

I am a long time Linux user and this so far the best release by
Red Hat.
Installing is a breeze, desktop is very nice. Default install most
features for average user. You can add more programs later thru
package manager, which is very easy to use.
Updating the system is easy with "up2date", which notified you when
updates are available. OpenOffice works like a charm.
For advanced power users there is tons of tools for programming,
editing, developing etc.
Burning CD's and DVD's is easy as click and drag.
For photo editing users there is a GIMP, very powerful editing
software.
My system is running very fast and stable with this Red Hat release. I did not have one single crash yet since I installed it
in Nov-2003.
If someone is looking for alternative operating system, this one
deserves to try.

15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easily connects to internet through router/DSL network., February 10, 2004

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R. Grannemann (Benbrook, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RED HAT Professional Edition (S W) WKST W 30DAY Support CD-ROM (CD-ROM)

I love the Linux/Unix environment for programming and its power, but had trouble connecting to the internet in SUSE through my new home network with a DSL modem, a router and my wife's Window XP computer. But with this product it connected with about five mouse clicks and is working great.

Here's how to do it for a network Hub configuration (as I understand it): telephone line connected to DSL modem which is connected through an ethernet cable to a router (I used Cicso's LinkSys) and then ethernet cables from the router to both computers.
Go to the Red Hat Icon start menu.
System Tools.
Internet Configuration Wizard
Select Ethernet Connection
Select the device it should have already located - press "forward"
Select Automatically obtain IP with dhcp
Forward, then Apply.
Everything suddenly works! You can surf the net at lightning speed!

I believe if you don't have the router and just a computer and DSL modem you will select xDSL instead of Ethernet Connection at that junction.

Email was fairly easy to set up. I got momentarily stuck since I didn't at first check the box for "requires authentication" for the Outgoing SMTP. If your service uses this (and SBC-Yahoo DSL does), then this box must be checked. A box will then open for you to insert the password for your service.

You can simply buy the third party CD's (after all this is open source) without the offical Red Hat box - $89 is kind of pricy. The offical box would be good for regular updates and security fixes from Red Hat, but I would wait for the price to come down a bit. If Red Hat would add virus protection to their subscription service, then I feel the subscription would be worth $60 a year or so. But right now the product is new and they're collecting the low hanging fruit. For the average person they need to drop the price a bit and give you a little something more for the subscription.