[wplug] Red Hat 8.0 "features"

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

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On Monday 14 October 2002 08:55, Weber, Larry A wrote:
> I have just completed upgrading from Red Hat 7.3 to 8.0.  I did an update,
> hoping that the system would remember my ethernet and serial port settings.
> It did not, so I'll have to reconfigure them.
>
> I use the KDE desktip and it appears that the upgrade has failed here too.
> None of the Koffice icons are at the bottom of the screen.  All the icons
> on the bottom of the screen, including terminal and desktop, are gears.
> Clicking them give me an error window saying the application does not
> exist.
>
> I conducted the ultimate test and started a solitare game.  Halfway through
> games it shuts down the application.  And I thought RH 7.2 was buggy.
>

It's nothing unusual, actually. Try updating a loaded winNT box with Win2K 
without a complete re-install, and you'll get similar results. I think it's 
just silly of Redhat to follow that path and make during the setup the 
implicit false promise that "Upgrading is ok".

It never was. I'd be interested to hear experiences from users of other 
distributions that *can*  be upgraded properly. (ok, BSDs excluded) :-)

- -A

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