Red Hat is stupid. I have been reading their RHEL5 documentation and am sad that I don't have any friends still working for Red Hat to which I could complain. Although it would have been preaching to the choir anyway.

They say they have made deploying RHEL easier by "streamlining" the prvious versions of AS/ES/WS. Then, in the immediately following text they explain that AS users will move to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Advanced Platform, ES users will move to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and WS users will move to Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop. So, according to Red Hat, making the name longer is how one "streamlines" things. Good job.

Speaking of names, it sure would be nice if they could decide if their products were named Server/Client or RHEL/RHEL Desktop, or some combination there of. Just pick one and be consisitant.

Next they lie about what their products can do and contain. One of their charts says that RHEL (read Server) has a full compliment of server packages and a partial compliment of client packages while RHEL Desktop (read Client) is the reverse. This is clearly wrong in my experience; the RHEL Desktop product is a proper superset of packages contained in RHEL.

Oh, and speaking of charts, I think this one is may favorite. I found it in their Product and packaging changes document on page 2. I have no idea what it is supposed to represent. I could not find the word HYPERVISOR anywhere else in the document. Sure looks spiffy though. Goofballs!