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Red Hat Linux 7.3 Released
qurob was the first of many readers to submit
that Red Hat 7.3 has been released.
Press release doesn't contain any surprises, just lists a bunch of stuff thats
included with the dist. (Evolution, Mozilla, Apache). So go find a mirror if
you're a Red Hat runner. Update: 05/06 14:05 GMT by T : christooley helpfully points out this list of mirrors.
This is some info for any geeks considering this bloatware concerning my personal exp. with it:
1. LILO does not work. This forced me to rely on a boot floppy.(see next item)
2. The option under the KDE menu to make a boot floppy doesn't work!! This is pathetic.
3. It's slow. Yes, that's right folks, slower than Windows 98, with which is shares a partition.
4. The bottom menu bar, Kicker or whatever the hell its called, sucks. You can easily add an applet, for example, but you can't 'right click' and take the damn thing off. This is stupid.
5. The documentation manual is a FUCKING JOKE, just like with Windows.
6. The driver for my Soundblaster Live! card is straight up BROKEN. There is an open source driver out there, but it entails that the kernel not be compiled with any other drivers for the card. In other words, you must re-compile the kernel. Yep, user friendliness at its best.
7. There's a little peice of shit prog called "lokkit" that is supposed to configure your firewall. It is BROKEN as well. I used it once and couldn't get on the 'Net no matter how hard I tried to fix it. I had to re-install.
sound good to you? admittedly, I'm no Linux veteran. So if you are and enjoy recompiling kernels and poring over thousands of configuration files, then have at it. But please, don't pay for this shit like I did.
$60 bucks for a fucking Red Hat sticker is not a good deal.