Bryan, Thank you for your interest, the system in question was running RHEL5.5, so every comment is based on that machine, used as a test bed for rhel6b2.
Motherboard Asus A8v-vm; Processor -AMD Athlon 64 - Memory 2GB; on board lan-Realtek; Modem - USR 2976pci fax/modem. For me the system is very vanilla and again was running all the functions before. Just as an interesting side issue, after not getting solutions to any of the problems I attempted to re-load RHEL5.5 and find that the hard drives won't re-format so the conversion back doesn't work. And of course the ext4 file system isn't in rhel5.5. I don' t use anything but AMD chips in our servers, only use Intel in netbooks(not much choice) which run Fedora 11&12 fine. Also the network setup in FC12 works fine or netbooks and notebooks, doesn't work in rhel6b2! We have used KDE from before there were Enterprise Linux distros, when we tried Gnome cut &paste didn't work and I personnaly didn't like the look(still don't) anyway Kylix and Qt graphic interface seemed to like KDE better and there have always been more features in KDE that fit our methods. In RHEL5.x KDE menu operation and VNC make a very impressive and reliable solution platform for our solution(50+ programs) and I am NOT changing our solution because Red Hat hasn't seen fit to test or integrate KDE better. Also it would be nice if Red Hat provided documentation that ran on KDE as well as Gnome, if they are 'compatible' solutions it should go straight across? Again immediate problems -Network, if it doesn't work I can't attach to the server and do a lot of testing. -Modem, if I can't configure dial in remote support, I can't ship a system that I can't support. -KDE, if I start a vnc session from KDE I get a 'gnome' based menu to work with, one of the thrills of 'gnome' is that it seems to be double click driven, KDE allows selecting single or double click, gnome doesn't seem to. When I accidentially double clicked a program, lo it does seem to work under rhel6b2! So far that has been the only positive experience I have had with rhel6b2. also under KDE the system only has a 800x600 screen resolution, on a flat pannel that is at least 1024x768 capable. I do believe that the majority of my real world problems are KDE based with rhel6b2, although not recognizing the network or modem are both show stoppers. Personal opinion, since gnome is the default environment for Red Hat, Suse, Ubuntu... the fact that KDE is only a tick behind in popularity shows that KDE is worth the extra effort to bring up, so is if both were even, the more popular environment. Anyway, I will step down off my KDE soapbox and thank you for showing interest in the problems. I, unlike some of the other comments in this batch am in no hurry for Red Hat to ship RHEL6, to me it isn't ready and I think there is every reason to be cautious, also if you have read the pre-realease guide, there are way to many 'TBA' solutions. John A. Ward
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