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On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 10:33 AM, Lisa Lorenzin wrote:
i have a laptop with redhat 7.3 on it - i did a straight laptop install,
and the only unusual choice i made was to install kde and not install
gnome.
I think that may be your problem right there.
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This is another one of those times that the @redhat.com subscribers are likely to get PO'd at me, but IMHO this is one of the most broken parts of Red Hat's distribution.
Lemme go on the record first and say that I use Red Hat a lot, I'm not a freeloader that is whining and moaning, I am a paying enterprise customer that is whining and moaning. ;-)
Anyway, what I think is "broken" about Red Hat is their increasing dependence on Gnome for basic system management tools, and pushing people into using Gnome. I really don't like gnome. And with every new Red Hat release I like it less and less. I prefer KDE. And not an adulterated KDE that has been spliced profusely with Gnome DNA. It really bothers me how much space on my HDD I need to waste on installing Gnome (multiplied by about 25+ machines) just to make sure I don't end up in the RPM hell that you're in just so I can run basic admin tools.
I'm having a bit of a love/hate relationship with the distro right now. Like I said, I am an enterprise customer so I do make use of the RHN web tools to manage installing errata on groups of servers all at once. This is a very useful tool to me, and one of the main reasons I continue to endorse the use of Red Hat at the office. On the flip side, it seems the useful parts of the distro aren't covered under the support contracts so my bug reports end up in bugzilla limbo never to be fixed. They've had a bug on the records for several releases now regarding the b0rkedness of autofs trying to pull its maps from LDAP, the maintainer (nalin) doesn't seem to have the time to even look at it, and my account rep doesn't seem very enthused about doing anything about it either.
In all honesty, if I had the time I would mangle my own up2date-like system based on what's out there now plus customizations, forget about support all together, change distros, and if I really needed something fixed I'd pay per incident to whomever was appropriate for the specific issue. Red Hat has a lot going for it but their support is very slack and their insistence on using Gnome for core system tools really drives me up the wall.
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