Please ignore this message. > 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. > > > > > >
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