[NCLUG] Looking for user reviews and installation CD-ROMs

Sean Reifschneider jafo at tummy.com
Tue Nov 7 10:03:33 MST 2000


On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 11:16:28PM -0800, J. Paul Reed wrote:
>Seeing as how this is going to quickly degenerate into a distro war about
>the same distro, no less, I will respond to this post, and leave it at
>that.

Ahh, declaring that you will have the last word, eh?

>I haven't... because I don't have the time to fix a horked box. I decided
>not to install it based upon previous experiences with RedHat x.0 releases,

I upgraded my laptop a couple of weeks ago.  Since it's my main box, I'm
getting a pretty good exposure to it.  I've been very happy with it.

>And I offered my opinion that they should solicit opinions (or better yet,
>test-install) RHAT 6.2, NOT 7.0.

I'd recommend a new user use 7.0 instead of 6.2.  It's got USB support,
a more recent kernel, and lots more goodies.

>shipped it, although that is part of it, but moreso because they're putting
>a compiler that has no future and could cause untold future problems in the
>hands of thousands of people, without fully realizing the consequences of



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