I have only one advice - if you really want an _almost_ bug free,
hassle free and more importantly a FUN distribution to work on, it
has to be Slackware. I _had_ to use RH for sometime because of some
of my work related stuff, and boy, was I reminded of M$ more often
than not !
-amlan.
Shourya Sarcar writes:
> I think RH 6.0 is _definitely_ buggy. I remember people having
> problems with RH6.0 probing the mouse type and and the
> installation process does not (probability around 97.223 %)
> recover from the problem. Groan $@! This has happened with me
> too and I found it a pleasure to go back to 5.2 and upgrade the
> kernel and other (read loadz) of stuff using control-panel. God
> save me, I dont think I have the courage to try out another
> install/upgrade using the RH6.0 distro.
> Sorting our problems with naughty distros is OK for
> techies,semi-techies and quarter-techies (that covers all of us
> , phew !). But for common people, I think facing cryptic
> messages or some thing like "...PGMG. BUG in EXT2FSCK or SOME
> BONEHEAD(YOU) IS CHECKING A LIVE FILE SYSTEM !!" or "Ran out of
> input.. System halted" is not a pleasant intro to an OS. On
> that count I think, MS-WIN (I can see a few guns being drawn;-))
> does have an marginal edge.... with common people. If we gotta
> give "Power to the people", focus needs to be channelised in
> this direction.
> Indra, you said something llike having probs w/the 5.0
> distro.. could you recollect ?
> Love,
> PID
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