Any Red Hat Fedora Core users out there?

[Deja Q]

I currently use SuSE 9.1 Pro, but I'm tempted to switch. (I had read a review that had shown Red Hat loads the fastest, so they obviously put some effort into their disk i/o drivers. :9 )

What are Red Hat's other best selling points?

Thx!

[lapfog_1]

1. Switched my servers from Redhat Core to SuSE

and things are much better.

First off, native OOB support for my 3ware controllers.
Second, native support for the MB gigE chip.
Third, easier to navigate (to me anyway) install.

Negative - didn't support my el cheapo flat screen which I
have connected through a KVM switch. Oh, well, it works in
text mode, and that's all I need for the servers.

Of course, YMMV.

[gonefishing]

2. SuSE is owned by Novell...

If that's not enough to scare you. How about this: SuSe is mostly developed in Germany and I had heard there are some serious turf wars between Novell's direction and the acquired core group of developers.

Personally, I work with ESM based software on both platforms and Red Hat is far more friendlier from an integration perspective.

[fsbooks]

3. I use it.at home

at work I use slackware, which I also recommend (where we also have Suse and Mandrake). The choice of fedora at home was not a well thought out decision, not that I am saying it was a bad decision. Someone gave me some 5.2 redhat disks a number of years ago, and I have just upgraded my system ever since (a new computer since then). Whether it boots up faster or not, I couldn't tell you, certainly my redhat machine is the slowest of the bunch, but that is really a function of the hardware. My guess is that slackware is the fastest of the bunch, though again all that is dependent on hardware and the services you start. Boottime to me is rather inconsequencial, since the machine is certainly up more than down.

I like fedora, currently almost on C2, except that my kernel is still 2.4. I roll my own for one, for another, the 2.6 kernels have still problems with the scsi adapter I have. I use it as I said because I started with it, and overtime have customized it to my liking. The update system is easy, and with the new fedora setup they stay pretty current (though not generally as current as slackware_current). What sometimes pisses me off is somewhat arbritrary changes in standards that can make it difficult at times to get the libraries linked properly in compiling.

If you have not visited it, try http://www.linuxquestions.org . There are frequent discussions of the rather arbritrary advantages and disadvantages of the various distros.