-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 05 October 2002 09:34 pm, Jack Bowling wrote: > ** Reply to message from Joe Giles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 05 Oct > 2002 18:10:57 -0600 (MDT) > > > This might not be the most appropriate spot for this kind of > > question, and I will gladly apologize if someone doesn't like it, but [snip] > > Anyway, what do you think; do you like it, or would you wait for the > > next release (or any fixes)? > > Can't think of a better forum. > > I love RH8. It is stable as a rock for me. I did a full load cuz I have > the hard drive space. The install took 63 minutes for the formatting of > four partitions and the ~4.5G install. I would recommend against the > full load - you get a lot of crap you don't need.
I was surprised by what doesn't get installed. I chose a workstation install, (and that may be the reason for the missing apps) and manually selected several items at install time, among them, KDE. I've since added several packages: plugger, which required xloadimage I don't see a reason behind installing Mozilla, but not plugger. xcdroast (gtoaster was installed) A few others that escape me at the moment. My only real complaint is with the kde menu. Redhat modified it to use a Red Hat specific configuration. This appears to cause non Red Hat apps to fail to add themselves to the menu. A case in point is Crossover Office, which I use to run Quicken under Linux. Crossover adds its menus to .kde/share/applink/crossover. To make them work, I had to move them to .kde/share/applink-redhat/crossover. They now appear in the menu, but I wouldn't expect someone new to Linux to figure that out. For what it is worth, I believe Suse did something similar, but added a config option in the control center to revert to the standard kde menu. Other than that, I'm happy with the running system. The clean install went flawlessly. The only install related notes I'd make are that despite installing Gnome and KDE, I saw no option to select KDE as the default desktop. I had to run switchdesk after booting the machine. The other is the first boot configuration utility. If you select a text login as I do, first run will never run. It only loads if you boot to run level 5. If not for some testing of the Null beta, I wouldn't have known it existed. - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3} in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9n8KPn/07WoAb/SsRAgXoAJ0fUJlY6NxfZB96t8LP+e+1wUP+VwCeLr89 hcwPTBvgMMTu4eIWtFJc49U= =d77S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
