Hi,
On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Shourya Sarcar wrote:
> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 22:02:09 +0530
> From: Shourya Sarcar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: ILUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [ilug-cal] Buggy RH6.0
>
> 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.
Don't agreed completely. The H/w detection part *has* improved in a big
way over RHL 5.2. Blaming the s/w is the most common knee-jerk reaction
in most of us. But often the culprits are to be found in the guise of
el-cheapo mobos, flacky vid cards, old bioses, xyz-compatible cards that
are not really *that* "compatible" ;-)
> 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.
Sure, and BSOD is the most pleasent experience in computing! Yes, MS-Winn
does have an "edge", why does no one every talk about the distress non-IT
users experience when facing a BSOD, or "This program has performed an
illegal operation" right before they were to save thet important
presentation, or the email to send off, or how does it feel to face a
virus while checking your mail with the morning cuppa of coffee ..most
windows users ("common users" ie.) are simply lulled into a false sense
of security.
If you are talking about out-of-box p-n-p support for h/w, think about
the days of Win 3.0 or even WFW 3.11, or look at NT till some time back,
how many h/w peripheral were easy to install?
And behind those drivers for the h/w, look for the tales of NDAs,
arm-twisting of OEM vendors, special licensing deals....the picture that
emerges is pretty grim....it is the story of a monopoly. Period!
[Note to everyone: I am not MS-bashing here and this isn't a flame-bait. I
happen to be one among the first batches of MCPs in India, at least I was
one long before Gates came for his highly publicised visit to India in '97.
I have played with Win98 beta for 6 months before its official release.
Till sometime back I was running a patched up Win 95 system (based on
OSR2), that without being W98, gave me all its features and showed an
internal build number of 4.10.1423 (very colse to the W98 final preview).]
--Cheers,
Indra.
PS. I think it was Dr. Goebbels (think Hitler) who said that if a
falsehood is repeated often for a long time, people slowly start to
believe it as the truth ;-)
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