As usual, Adir has made the WRONG selection. The user-friendlyness for the newbie of the install screens has NOTHING to do with how easy it would be to interact with the working system. The hardware support can be fixed during the party.
The major problem with RedHat is installing packages. There is no "uprmi" for RedHat. There is only up2date that requires payed subscription to RHN to use. Meir and Shachar - Please consider up2us[1] for the updates CD to help with installing packages. As users will not be able to easily install software themselves (due to Adir's descision) it's important to put ANY useful software on the updates CD and ANY thinkable library. Also, put -devel versions of everything to allow installation from source. [1] http://up2us.sourceforge.net/ > Hi all, > > I have arrived to the final decision, after RedHat 9.0 surprised me for > good. In comparison to Mandrake, The graphic installation looks very > comfortable, yet it is flexible enough to do all "expert" installations. > Installing it on several laptops and some desktop PCs, it worke VERY well, > without any special tweaks or extra writing after the first installation > is done, and unlike Mandrake, which doesn't do restart properly in > laptops (the Compaq logo, for instance - gets stuck after doing restart > in Mandrake), in Redhat 9.0, APM works well, including all the indicators > (battery, etc.), without configuring them later. > The menus of redhat look more clear, for a change, in comparison to > Mandrake's, and the choise of programs is more "ordered" and more clear. I > think that a RedHat installation has never been so trivial (to the newbie > user) as RedHat 9.0, in my opinion. > > What I see in an installation, is, first of all - the ease of installation > to the newbie person, then the choise of programs, the graphical > interface, and the ease of configuration. I see a succesfull distribution > as the first "push" to the newbie, and the first impression. > All in all, Redhat is blessed with that. Mandrake is, too, but has some > problems which don't exist in Redhat. That's what I see in my point of > view. > > Because of those little changes but meaningful ones (in my opinion), I > choose Redhat 9.0 as the official distribution for the instaparty. The > work on the selection of packages and extra CD will start pretty soon. > > Best regards. > > -- This message was sent by Alon Altman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ICQ:1366540 GPG public key at http://alon.wox.org/pubkey.txt Key fingerprint = A670 6C81 19D3 3773 3627 DE14 B44A 50A3 FE06 7F24 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -=[ Random Fortune ]=- I don't know why we're here, I say we all go home and free associate. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
