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

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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?


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