Where's the office? I've been fighting with Oracle and HPUX all morning and could use the stress relief. Ben Lutgens <blutgens at sistina.com>@mn-linux.org on 11/08/2001 11:57:44 AM Please respond to tclug-list at mn-linux.org Sent by: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org To: TCLUG List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> cc: Subject: [TCLUG] HELP ME! I'M A REDHAT USER! For the love of god someone come to the office and kick me in the beanbag. I installed RedHat 7.2 on a spare partition on my laptop last night and I'm afraid to say: "I like it" I've been fighting with shit too long it seems and when stuff just works it causes me physical pain and mental anguish. I find myself having lots of time to surf, play games, watch t.v. and read. I did a fresh install on top of ext3 and left out all the desktop environments so I was left with xdm and twm. I grabbed go-gnome script from ximian.com and ran it and then started to watch t.v. fully expecting it to die. While the process took an eternity i was pleasantly surprised to find a working, stable, fast gnome desktop when it was finished. Complete with a "you're a first time user" wizard like thing. Generally I'm an Enlightenment / Gkrellm user but i'm finding that alot the things that irritated me about sawfish are gone now. One of the main things that's always bothered me about gnome/sawfish was stability. No matter what I did it always seemed to die on me. But I'm realizing that they all pretty much code to the one flavor of *nix with has the largest userbase (RedHat) it all installs cleanly and runs well. I didn't have to mess around to get any of the hardware working it just worked. I was a little irritated that I didn't get galeon in a default ximian install. But that appears to be no problems since I'm using red-carpet to add it. It's painfully slow even here at work on the T3. Red Carpet is pretty neat, it's like a no fuss graphical way to keep your stuff up to date and allows you to install new packages too which is nice. The only problem is that I don't see vim6. WTF is redhat waiting for? vim6 kicks ass! I also liked the ability to configure a firewall at install time which proved to be no hassle at all and set me up with a nice set of unobtrusive rules (which as I've just noticed are causeing me havoc when trying nfs mount some music while in the machine room) O.k. suffice it to say I'm pleasantly surprised albeit a bit ashamed at the quality of redhat. I still detest RPM's but what can you do? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: C.DTF Type: application/octet-stream Size: 242 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011108/5b1f6810/C.obj