{"id":1642,"date":"2003-08-05T18:22:43","date_gmt":"2003-08-06T01:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/08\/red-hat\/"},"modified":"2003-08-05T18:22:43","modified_gmt":"2003-08-06T01:22:43","slug":"red-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/05\/red-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tI&#8217;m posting this from my Linux box at the world headquarters of Network Strategies in beautiful downtown Santa Clara, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Installing Red Hat 9 was by far the easiest OS installation I&#8217;ve ever experienced, and that includes lots of OS installations.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s way easier than Windows, and that goes for 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, Me, and XP, although version 1.0 was almost as smooth. But it should have been, because it didn&#8217;t do anything.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of Silicon Valley dudes live double lives, using Solaris or Linux at work, and then regressing to Windows at home because the computer&#8217;s shared and Windows used to be so easy to install, manage, and use. But that era is rapidly coming to an end, if it&#8217;s not ended already.<\/p>\n<p>And since this is a computer I put together out of old parts laying around, if my packet-scheduling kernel doesn&#8217;t work right away, nobody cares but me.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m posting this from my Linux box at the world headquarters of Network Strategies in beautiful downtown Santa Clara, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Installing Red Hat 9 was by far the easiest OS installation I&#8217;ve ever experienced, and that includes lots of OS installations. It&#8217;s way easier than Windows, and that goes for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/05\/red-hat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Red Hat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-qu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}