RHEL 5 Desktop... where?

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Hi all

The work has decided that we (I.E myself and another colleague... about the only 2 in the company that isn't scarred of working with penguins) needs to get a RHEL certification for a notebook and maybe some others in future.

The boss signs up for us, gets us onto the RHN and we get RHEL 5.4...server version. While the server version is ok, for servers and other none-too-complex or newfangled hardware, most things don't work on the notebook.

My patience is withering with RHEL. I just want to scream when I stick my shiny Mint 7 disc in and within seconds I have a fully functional system, with the right resolution, working wifi, working LAN (@$# SIS bug), working everything.

I have looked (on RHN) as much as I can, but please can somebody tell me where Redhat hides the iso download for the Desktop version? And/or explain where gcc is hidden so I can compile a new driver file to atleast get the LAN working.

Btw, I'm not a regular user of Redhat (haven't really used it since RH6.x, back in school). I was trained on Suse (only about a world apart) and mainly use the easy/lazy Linux distros of late.
 
Redhat is for Servers
Centos is the free version of RHEL also for servers.
Fedora is like a testbed for Redhat, but sports the newer packages and appeals to Desktop users.

So if you want something for the laptop that is anything like Redhat, try Fedora.
 
Suse have server (SLES) and desktop (SLED) releases for enterprise. Redhat, from what I know only have one release; RHEL.

Personally, I use Fedora 11. I don't need the enterprise support, and there are much more software for Fedora, than for RHEL. I also don't have to pay to get updates.
 
The only reason you'd specifically want RHEL5 would be for a server.
 
Thanks guys, but this is not about using another flavour, but getting Redhat to agree with the hardware, and finally getting the redhat certification for the hardware.

Been banging my head against the wall/notebook, but got most of the tests to pass (v7 certify).
 
Tried that... It's not very useful: Basically takes you to creating an RHN account, and from there you only seem to get the server iso image.

On the upside, I am not so close to getting my first system RH qualified, I can taste the victory. Nothing like stubbornly bumping into the wall and breaking it down.
 
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