is anyone here using rhel now that is free of charge for development use?
installed some days ago, so far the worse distribution I've used:
got a kernel panic after installing in virtualbox,
can't install anything ootb without typing at least three subscription-manager commands with parameters like 20+ chars alphanumeric ID,
yum is so fucking slow and can't find anything because the standard repositories are missing a lot of packages,
old version of everything,
no ifconfig and systemdicked network interface names like adf9s0,
sshd with insecure configuration and a smtp server enabled by default in a minimal installation
so, how can be one of the few paid gnu/linux distribution so shitty?
is there anything good about it except "support"?
>>53885489
I've never used it, but I can tell you that ifconfig is almost definitely there, you have to type in the full path, so it's
/sbin/ifconfig
>>53885489
>hur dur, I'm too dumb to use a package manager
>how to configure sshd?
fucking retard.
>>53885516
I had to install the net-tools package, in the minimal default install only ip was available, I think they are deprecating it, at least in rhel 7.2
>>53885611
>hur dur, I'm too dumb to use a package manager
subscription-manager is not exactly a package manager, yum itself is not bad, only slow
>how to configure sshd?
do you even logic? if I can't configure sshd how could I detect insecure settings?
>>53885785
Yum has been deprecated. Use dnf
>>53887384
dnf
deprecated by
ass
>>53885489
Use it at work...absolutely terrible.
>>53887384
isn't dnf still fedora only?
>>53885489
Why would anyone use RHEL? Fedora is much better?
Isn't RHEL for Servers/Commercial use?
>>53887636
sure, but even on servers why should I prefer rhel over debian if I don't need red hat support?
>>53885489
>got a kernel panic after installing in virtualbox
>virtualbox
>>53885489
>can't install anything ootb without typing at least three subscription-manager
>babby's first paid distro
>>53885489
>yum
deprecated in favour of dnf in rhel7
>>53885489
>can't find anything because the standard repositories are missing a lot of packages
>babby's first real server distribution
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
you can also probably use centos repos for extra software, maybe even rpmfusion
see also: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items
>>53885489
>old version of everything,
>babby's first server distribution
>>53885489
>no ifconfig and systemdicked network interface names like adf9s0
use rhel6 until support ends in 2020~ ish then
>>53885489
>sshd with insecure configuration
you'll have to elaborate but it's not going to be completely insecure ootb if you have even the minimum of basic security practices
also,
>>53885489
>and a smtp server enabled by default in a minimal installation
>what is documentation
>>53885489
>so, how can be one of the few paid gnu/linux distribution so shitty?
>is there anything good about it except "support"?
rhel is primarily for enterprises (the clue is in the name) to be ran on servers and to a lesser extent workstations, it doesn't do well as a desktop os and doesn't lend itself to handholding you as it's assumed a competent system admin will be setting the box up and will know what is what
the support is primarily why people use it and as a result rhel is a $1.5 billion dollar company
>>53887770
>babby's first real server distribution
you got me, I just want to learn, need to use it for a job, I usually use ubuntu
>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
I've read about that, but I don't want to add external repositories for basic things like htop and python3, why not including these in the official repository?
>rhel is primarily for enterprises (the clue is in the name) to be ran on servers
as I said I'm not interested in installing the last version of mpv, xorg isn't even installed
>the support is primarily why people use it
so nothing else?
