Just a note to everyone... I finally got it all downloaded and running. I installed it 2 times. Here is what I found out...
If you install the default Desktop or workstation and opt to not install any additional packages, you might be screwed. The first time I installed 8.0, I left everything default. Once installed and running, I could not install the new version of gkrellm or any plugins (From the source). I could not install allot of packages that needed to be BUILT. This was probably due to the lack of developer RPM's being installed. The second time I installed it, I modified the install to include the developer packages and some others. Once I did that, I could build anything I wanted to. I think Red Hat should have specified this during the install process. True, most "Desktop" users wont need developer packages, but if they want to "Make" any software, they will need it. All in all, once I customized the install, its pretty good. One thing though, I cant seem to change the Login Manager from GDM to KDM. With KDM, I was able to list my family on the login page so they just selected their name and then the pass. If I go in and try to change this, the settings don't take effect. On the other hand, if I manually edit the files in sysconfig, they seem to get replaced once the system is up. Whats up with that? Anyway, I like 8.0. Most of the "Quirks" can be worked out, IF you are savvy with Linux:) -- Joe Giles [EMAIL PROTECTED] AOL: mcigiles ------- Registered Linux User #264910 http://counter.li.org ------- Reuben D. Budiardja said: > Hello all, > Well, this is my take on RH 8.0. Over the week end I tried to help a > friend installing RH. The person never used linux before (only Mac and > Win), and so I thought RH 8.0 would be perfect. it's also my first time > installing RH 8.0. > > The installation went fine and really smooth. Then after that, when I > want to put some final touches, problem started appearing: > > XFree86: > I use Matrox G200 8MB as the video card. It can do 1024 x 768, 16 bit > without a problem. When I tried to switch using redhat-config-xfree86 > to 1152 x 962(?), 16 bit, the screen flickered. The config gui show I > can only do 1280 x 1024 with 256 color. ..interesting.... > > Mozilla: > 1. I can't get plugger to work with mozilla. I tried everything I knew, > read the website instruction, etc,etc. > (http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger.html). Opening "About Plugins" from > Mozilla display only "Plugger".. then the rest of the screen is blank, > although I have Flash and SVG pluggins working > > 2. As someone else has mentioned, I can't get java plugins to work > either. > > Abiword and Gnumeric: > 1. All texts in abiword and gnumeric looks really screw up. It also > looks as if there is a space between each letter (although there > isn't), something like this: > a b c d e > Original font list in abiword does not even have Times font. > > 2. Upgrade Abiword manually doesn't solve the problem. I didn't bother > to try to fix gnumeric. > > MP3 and MPEG > 1. Since there is no MPEG movie player, I installed mplayer. KDE uses > artsd to play sound, thus when I run mplayer, it complained sound > device /dev/dsp is busy. Of course, when I tried "/sbin/fuser /dev/dsp" > it showed the pid of artsd. > never have this problem with plaympeg and mpg123 > > PDF Reader: > 1. Acroread from Adobe failed to start. It says something about not > being able to use UTF bla..bla..bla encoding. > > At that point, I just gave up. I had spent about half a day trying to > get things set up and running, and those annoying little things made me > think maybe I should just use RH 7.3 since I have more experience with > it. > > So I scrapped the whole system and installed RH 7.3, and got everything > set up to the way I want it in less than 2 hours (excluding the > installation time). My purpose was to set up the system for new linux > user, so I needed those little things (mozilla plugins, acrobat reader, > abiword, gnumeric, etc) set up and easily accessible without much > fiddling around with things. > > So my conclusion is: for the things that Redhat has set it up for me, > eg. OpenOffice, evolution, and the desktop (bluecurve menu, etc), it > works fine. But when I start adding things, it's hard to get it working > since probably RH has tweaked a lot of stuff their way. > > Hope this helps anyone who's trying to decide whether to do an upgrade > or not :) > > Reuben D. Budiardja > > > > -- > 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
