{"id":300,"date":"2008-03-07T22:49:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T21:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2008\/03\/07\/rhel-is-never-right\/"},"modified":"2024-01-11T18:06:01","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T17:06:01","slug":"rhel-is-never-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2008\/03\/07\/rhel-is-never-right\/","title":{"rendered":"RHEL is never right"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Okay it has been known for a while, but I just recently found out so I figure I should help put the light on a recent hilarious article published in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhatmagazine.com\/\">Red Hat Magazine<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhatmagazine.com\/2008\/02\/04\/tips-and-tricks-rhel-ref\/\">It is never correct to abbreviate Red Hat Enterprise Linux\u009d as RHEL\u009d<\/a>. (That&#8217;s actually not the correct title of the article, but the correct title is so ridiculously long I won&#8217;t paste it here since it&#8217;d take everyone&#8217;s breaths away.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to this article, RHEL is &#8220;never correct&#8221; as an abbreviation for Redhat Enterprise Linux &#8211; even though Google finds almost 2 million pages mentioning it, and the top search result it shows links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redhat.com\/rhel\">www.redhat.com\/rhel\/<\/a>. Limiting the search to within redhat.com gives more than 52,000 hits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some people complicate matters more than others&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay it has been known for a while, but I just recently found out so I figure I should help put the light on a recent hilarious article published in the Red Hat Magazine: It is never correct to abbreviate Red Hat Enterprise Linux\u009d as RHEL\u009d. (That&#8217;s actually not the correct title of the article, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2008\/03\/07\/rhel-is-never-right\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RHEL is never right<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[89,88,421,87,90],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-politics","category-linux","tag-funny","tag-humour","tag-linux","tag-redhat","tag-rhel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24013,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/24013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}