You have to remember it is not Redhat that does the support of your video. It is Xfree86. When Xfree86 supports, Redhat will start support it too.
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 09:09, Joshua P. Metcalf wrote: > I was kinda disappointed to find that RedHat 8.0 does not support my > Dell's 82845G/GL video card. I was sure that because this card has been > on the marker since the beginning of the year that the newsest release > of RedHat would support it... > > Ohh well, guess I have to wait for the next release to see the pretty > front end.. > > Joshua Metcalf > Network Administrator > Southeastern College > Phone: 863.667.5169 > Fax: 863.667.5200 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Redhat Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 9:05 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: RH 8.0.... What do you think... > > First things first it is an 8.0 release. therefore much technology in it > is new. > > Second Never upgrade anything and expect it to work, it is just > torture. Backup and wipe the disk. OS's are very complex beasts and > this is a next generation .0 release. > > It has loads of new stuff. > > The most reliable distro on the planet is debian. but they are so far > behind in the software that they offer. > > xfreex6 4.1 kde2.2 gnome 1.4 > > but it is rock solid and will do almost everything. e.g staroffice web > server email server, and has the best ever package management tool > > 8.0 I think is a the biggest thing that has happened to linux, because > it has such a pretty front end. The people who buy an os want that. All > menu driven. it will mature and buy the time we get to 8.2 it will all > work well. > > But the most reliable is debian, but woody took 2 years to produce and > is without question the best if that's all you need but is hard to > configure > > But as a desktop for non linux users RH 8 is the one > > Simon > > > > > > On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 02:21, Scott Bower wrote: > > What do I Think?! > > > > Let me say, I was banking on a better job. I use RedHat at home and at > > > work and in both cases had (and am still having) major problems. At > > home I run a hobby ISP and the implementation of 8.0 I admit wasn't > > well thought out or exactly planned beforehand let alone trialled > before > > deployment... I was suckered into believing that the upgrade would > > actually upgrade as it has done every time before. My biggest rush to > > deployment was as a result of a major drive faltering and the fact > that > > RH8.0 contained JFS which would allow dirty great archives... I > > should've stayed with 7.3 and copped the data loss. I spent most of > the > > past week recovering from this upgrade well and truly long after > > hardware glitches were removed from the equation, finding things just > > not working and other things segfaulting preventing anything at all > > useful getting done. One such incident involved the freshly installed > > > JFS filesystem daemon doing a better job of DoS than any > cracker/script > > kiddie has been able to do thus far. for whatever reason, the system > > stopped, after fruitlessly getting my wife to try dancing with it (I > was > > at work) I requested she cold boot the server (not even an M$ three > > fingered salute would work). On booting, the system replayed fs > journals > > and found them good however on automounting, something shit itself > (read > > Core Dumped) and the entire mount process stopped. The system carried > > > on booting without such inconsequential and irrelevant things as the > > /usr directory tree. Needless to say the server did nothing but sit > > there and pull funny faces. I eventually changed the JFS Mounts to > > noauto in fstab to allow the bloody thing to work and found that these > > > mounts worked fine when manually mounted (WTF!?!!). A quick shortlist > of > > other showstopping sanity sapping glitches include random configs not > > converted, not workable or even better just plain disappearing into > some > > other dimension, non functioning daemons pretending to be functional > > (i.e. lights on, nobody's home...) and musical directory structures... > > > the desktop looks nice though. > > > > I wanted to front my employer with a desktop SOE based on this new > > release but it's been plagued with a number of annoying "features"... > > like random disappearing mozilla and things like that. As a result I'm > > > now looking at other distributions just to save face. I haven't had > > this many problems with a computer since I thought Microsoft was the > go... > > > > I am yet to read any of the mails you speak of about the problems > other > > people have been having and I guess I might find a little solice in > > knowing I wasn't alone. I will say though that RedHat have blown > their > > own arse off on this one and they can keep their boxed set this time > > around... > > > > Scott. > > > > Joe Giles wrote: > > > > >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 I would like > to > > >know what you all think about the new Red Hat 8.0. I am downloading > the > > >4th CD now and I was going to install it, but in light of e-mails > this > > >last week, I'm not sure I want to with all the problems others are > having. > > >I have a perfectly good working 7.3 install and I really would like > to get > > >others opinions of it before I format and reinstall. I was thinking > about > > >installing it on VMWare and giving it a test drive first. > > > > > >Anyway, what do you think; do you like it, or would you wait for the > next > > >release (or any fixes)? > > > > > >Thanks > > > > > >p.s. > > >Again, if the moderators (or anyone else) does not like me to request > this > > >information on this list, let me know and I will post elseware... > > >-- > > >Joe Giles > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >AOL: mcigiles > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
