on 7/22/2007 12:27 PM, Erik Hemdal wrote: >> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:59:23 -0600 >> From: Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> Subject: Re: Ubuntu download >> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Message-ID: <20070722105923.deeae485.theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >> >> On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:46:18 -0700 >> David Boles <dgboles@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> I have to ask the obvious question. Why would you want to run a server OS >>> on a laptop? >> The obvious answer may be that even if you don't want RHEL specifically on your >> laptop, by purchasing it with RHEL pre-installed you can be reasonably well >> assured that all of the included hardware is supported under Linux of whatever >> variety. Therefore you could order with confidence and install any other Linux >> flavour on it when you got the machine in the door. > > No. I wouldn't like to pay a premium for Red Hat's commercial > distribution and then not use it. I teach courses using Red Hat's > distribution, and I have to specify machines that students will use in > our courses. > > I know I can obtain RHEL or any of its variants and install myself, and > I do that now, but that's not as good as getting the whole package from > one source. By "whole package" you mean computer and the OS installed? If so I doubt that Dell will install RHEL 5 for you. That is unless you bought a warehouse full of computers. ;-) As for compatible hardware? I would start here: redhat.com | Certified Hardware https://hardware.redhat.com/hwcert/index.cgi What my question was - Why a server OS on a laptop? - was thinking that server OS's do not tend to make good desktop type installs. So what you need is the server OS to teach administration tasks. Now that makes sense. -- David
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