I hope this is the right forum for this kind of email. Sorry if you feel it swallows bandwidth.
I have had various Linux installations from the 0.9 up and now I found this RL, which is very near what I've been looking for all these years. Except: -There is no http server (?) -It is SLOW ! -One more program please ! -Some programs less please ! 1) I tried to install Apache from the RedHat 7.2 CDROM and got error messages. It wants to have libdb-3.0.x.x.x and libmm-so.x.x and some /sbin/configxxxx -file. In Apaches own pages there is no RPM packages. I have my reasons to use only RPM's. I think Apache should be a 'must' in the CD even if it is not installed by default. 2) I have had many distributions in this PC: Win3.xx, W9x, WinNT, Win2000, Slackware, RedHat 5.0..7.2, Mandrake 7.0..8.2, Plan 9, FreeBSD, Inferno, Menuet... This Amethyst is the slowest by far ! (233MHz Pentium, Asus P2L97, 64MB, 40GB HD, Maxtor Millenium II 4MB.) What I mean by 'slow': -opening or closing an application takes 5..50 sec in KDE. -a tiny movement of the mouse makes the HD rattle for seconds -moving a window jams the PC for 5..50 sec -after closing a window KDE paints the desktop blue line by line I do not use pictures but bare blue desktop. There is mostly only konqueror, Mozilla mail and one console opened. TOP tells me that there is about zillion processes running, but most take about 0% processor time, except X who takes 40MB of memory and 1..30% of CPU. I would not like to compile the kernel, because I'm looking for a distro to be installed to our student's PC's. 3) allthough I want to keep the package simple, I'd like to have one thing more in the CD: a little editor. Either Joe or Pico. After all these years I still hate VIM and Emacs. 4) there is still too much material in the default installation. Now the installation was about 780MB and there is pieces, that are not needed in every PC: sound, modem, CD-burner, games... They are nice luxuries, but I think they could stay in CD until needed. RL has this fine RPM system. Why not depend on it. Make a lo-fat installation by default and let us decide what we to install from the CD later. My visions about Linux: My vision is that the default installation should be VERY minimum: minimum KDE running, RPM installer, minimum network and an small editor. >From there on I could install programs from CD by RPM one by one or give a list as a file or use an interactive installer. THE INSTALLATION OF APPLICATIONS SHOULD START _AFTER_ THE BASE SYSTEM IS UP AND RUNNING. All distributions I have tested, either install everything with no questions or make zillions of questions and after that install everything. Now we endusers are in the hands of the makers of the distributions. The distros are version by version containing more programs. And doubles and triples of the programs. There has been no way to give feedback. Except go and buy MS. Linux is now a bunch of programs more than a system to work with. (I'm not comparing it to MSWindows or anything else) Firewall should be mostly closed but there should be a program by which it could be opened interactively piece-by-piece. (I didn't find how make the RPM installer to find RPM's from RH7.2 CD. It seems there is no 'Open' -menu in the program.) - -- rl-users list. To leave, send "unsubscribe" without quotes in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/rl-users@chicago.redmondlinux.org/
