[wplug] Red Hat 8.0 for $20

[bgtrio at yahoo.com]

Regarding the comparison of Redhat 8.0 to Windows,

My experience has been exactly the opposite.  The *only* problems I've had 
with redhat 8.0, under heavy desktop use, has been with my unusual ALSA 
sound configuration required by my cheapo sound chipset that isn't 
supported by the OSS/Free drivers yet.  The OS itself 
has been not only rock solid, but the new configuration tools have allowed 
me to succeed in figuring out some samba and nfs issues that just required 
too much time investment in the past to explore.  The new display 
configuration dialog is also a godsend, saving me a lot of time mucking 
about in XF86Config files.  To paraphrase the Python motto, the new 
configuration menus have made the easy things easy and the hard things 
possible.  You can still muck about in the config files when necessary, 
but you don't have to do so nearly so often.  In this respect, this 
release of RedHat represents the first linux distribution to approach 
Windows in terms of ease of use.  

The Bluecurve theme is beautiful.  I use Blackbox for my wm, but 
Mozilla, gtk-Gnutella, X-Chat and a load of other applications benefit 
from the design work they did.  I hope OpenOffice.org can capitalize on 
gtk themes soon as well.

I can't imagine what is causing you to require daily restarts.  I have 
found this release to be as stable as the 7.3 release.  My current uptime 
is 28 days, 52 minutes, I've had no crashes requiring a reboot since 
upgarding, my last reboot was when I moved the computer across the room.

So in summary, if RedHat 8.0 has been like windows for me, it's been in 
terms of usability rather than instability.

Regards, 
Bryon

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Weber, Larry A wrote:

> Might be, but I am not so sure that RH 8.0 is worth it.  I have been running
> it for a couple of months and find it has numerous problems, primarily with
> desktops the user interfaces.  This is the first version of any Linux that I
> have used that is less reliable than Windows.  Daily restarts are common.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	James O'Kane [SMTP:jo2y at midnightlinux.com]
> > Sent:	Sunday, December 08, 2002 11:10 PM
> > To:	WPLUG
> > Subject:	[wplug] Red Hat 8.0 for $20
> > 
> > I found this today, Red Hat 8.0 personal edition in a box for $20. I think
> > 
> > that comes with printed manuals, so a book is worth $20, isn't it?
> > 
> > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006LS9B/qid=1039405537/sr=32-2/j
> > o2yfund-20
> > 
> > -james
> > 
> > 
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