On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Colin McKinnon wrote: > Guess who got root-kitted last week.
}:^> Join the gang. I think anyone worth their salt has been "done". It helps to keep the healthy paranoia going. > Anyway, to cut a long story short, I decided to try out > RH8.0. I'm not very impressed. Previously my box (266MHz K6 / 128Mb) was > running RH 7 with a Ximian Gnome desktop and all was stable, and > reasonably perky. Now I can only use the Gnome desktop if I log in as > root (and go make a coffee while it's starting). Even then, it falls > over after about 30 minutes of use. > > Until I get a new job I ain't going to be upgrading my hardware, so I'm > thinking I might just put on a different Window manager (mwm works - but > its just so ugly - and I need a launcher and file manager). Any > recommendations for something thats easy on the eyes and the hardware? Have you tried the Debian way? I've not yet, but a friend has switched from RH to Debian (basically because of RH8.0) and he says its great. I don't know how hardware-hungry it is, though. Cheers, Paul. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Particle Physics (Theory & Experimental) Groups Dr Paul Millar Department of Physics and Astronomy [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Glasgow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/paulm +44 (0)141 330 4717 A54C A9FC 6A77 1664 2E4E 90E3 FFD2 704B BF0F 03E9 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
