On Tue, Mar 11, 2003, Ira Abramov wrote about "Re: Insta Party!": > Quoting Nadav Har'El, from the post of Tue, 11 Mar: > > Besides, as I explained once and again, newbies *must* be given only the > > *latest* release available, because such a release will always support > > newer hardware better, and support Hebrew better. If you give someone > > well, across linux-il and another LUG list I'm on, very User who tried > it complained. I haev yet to hear ONE person, other than Hetz, say a > good word about RHL8.
Ave Redhat 8.0, linuxuri te salutant! Is that what you wanted to hear? I use Redhat 8.0 and I'm very pleased with it. It is not flawless, and has a few bugs, but it is still better than any Redhat release that came before it. The updated versions of all the packages (yes, even gcc), the inclusion of OpenOffice, improved Konqueror, and many other new features in this release more than made up for any new bugs that may have crept in. > why not use Mandrake if Hebrew is so important? How is Mandrake better than Redhat in that respect? I am guessing that the latest Mandrake is just as good as the latest Redhat, but not much (or even any) better. (but this is just a guess - I never used Mandrake myself). > if grep slowed down by 3(!!) orders of magnitude, you would notice, I > promise you. It was one example I read on a list, I haven't installed it I promise you, I never noticed such a slowdown. And you don't have to work in the UTF8 locale if you don't want to, it's just an option... I continue to use ASCII :) > (or whatever it was the preceded it) by including all the updates and > crypto (before it was built-in) into the main install list. One thing I > noticed that RPM can't do to this day is to survive (cd RPMS ; rpm -Fvh > *) if there are too many files in the directory. it may die and corrupt > the database. just one more reason I like apt-get better. There's is indeed a bug in Redhat 8.0's "rpm" command which sometimes hangs for no reason. It doesn't consistently happen, and apparently is not specific to large directories, and happens randomly (repeating the same command works). Luckily, it happens very rarely for me. -- Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, Mar 11 2003, 7 Adar II 5763 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |I want to live forever or die in the http://nadav.harel.org.il |attempt. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
