R. Sean Hartnett wrote:
> Anyone try out the latest release?
> Curious as to what first impression it made?
I did a full install on my machine at home, alongside an existing win2k
installation on the same 80GB drive. Fwiw here's a rundown of my hardware:
Athlon 1700XP, Shuttle AK31A, 512MB PC2100
Radeon All-In-Wonder 8500 DV
Adaptec 2940UW
3Com 3C509-something-or-other 10/100 Ethernet
80GB/7200RPM WD ATA-133 HD
Panasonic LF-D101U DVD-RAM
HP CD-RW (also SCSI-based)
SB Live Value
What I like so far:
o Inclusion of Mozilla .99 with a lot of plugins already configured
o KDE3.0, though the default sound effects are starting to get on my
nerves a bit
o Gnome Toaster rocks
o gtkphoto talks to my Canon Powershot S30 digital camera w/o problems
o GRUB doesn't gag a'la LILO if it discovers that I've removed my
removable HDD
What I was less thrilled about:
o Support for Radeon 8500 in XFree86 is *almost* there. All the mpeg
players would appear to run except that the video would be all black.
Fixed that by finding ever so slightly newer server bits on SourceForge.
BUT, when I upgraded from 7.3 Beta 3 to the released version, the installer
quietly reinstalled the older X server... Feh.
o The ability to choose amongst five different GUIs that claim to configure
things like the network is confusing. Also some don't appear to work as
well as others. I think having choices is a Good Thing and I think RH
does the Right Thing to make these all available. But even at the risk
of promoting one GUI or package over another it would be good if they
would identify and make it easy to navigate to an "official" set of
GUIs for system mangling and administration.
o Would be neat if they'd offer something that would lead one through
the process of getting the windows boot loader to boot the Linux partition...
I had done a full install of Beta 3, then "upgraded" to the released
version. However from the level of CD activity I observed and the
amount of time it all took, it appeared that it simply reinstalled
everything...
-- Farrell
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