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Technical Review for Red Hat Linux 9
ewilts writes "Dax Kelson from Guru Labs has posted a technical review for Red Hat Linux 9. It's a definite read if you want to get away from the marketing fluff that focuses on eye-candy and instead read about the release from a sysadmin's point-of-view."
i spend 2 full days downloading the isos, only to read the review and determine i shouldn't bother
... FOR ME TO POOP ON
ip security bit stories are good enough
vodka, straight up, thank you!
OMG!
"There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
Does it support RFC 3514?
if it supports the George Foreman iGrill? I'm waiting on the boxed set, and could really use the functionality.
C|N>K
Now that the BSD's have merged into one Empire, us Linux users need to put aside our differences and form an Alliance to ensure that BSD to teeter on the brink of death as it has for several years.
"People that quote themselves in their signatures bother me" - athakur999
Just a pet peeve of mine, and I would like to see more reviews/articles like this. Now, back to the fake-RFC's and slew of other shitty April Fools jokes.
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for SEGA. ..."
On the bright side, I think that RedHat's decision to split their software in a publically available, bleeding edge distribution and a more conservative, corporate version is just great. The former is a test bed for the latter. Donwnloaders and enthusiasts do the stress tests, corporations get a stabilized product. Excellent scheme !
Yeah, it's not quite on topic, but I figured someone should mention it...
As of this posting, 26 hours after it began being distributed via BitTorrent, 5400 people have received copies of the ISOs using that protocol, and over 11 terabytes of data have been transmitted over that torrent.
There are now also torrents available for the source and documentation ISOs. To download either set, please visit f.scarywater.net.
Thanks
What, me Tweet?
From the RedHat site:
/lib/congress/..." [um...I'll leave that one up to the imagination] /...." /...."
"...evil bit support under IPv4..."
"...Volkswagen-sized packaging..."
"...support for
"...support for new hardware, including the Foreman iGrill..."
"...networks with Windows versions, Macs, and all one version of BSD..."
"...guaranteed to filter dupes at
"...guaranteed to filter dupes at
GF.
Lots of petrified grits
While I have your attention, I'm gonna make a tiny little rant about gnome, which I generally like. In gnome-1.4, gnome-terminal takes arguments like --foreground=lightblue --background=black. This annoyed me when I first encountered it because it breaks the standard color choice arguments that work in so many X11 appsl for example: xterm -fg lightblue -bg black.
But now gnome 2 breaks the old 1.4 convention! As far as I can tell, the only way to choose your colors is to create a bunch of profiles, and then use --window-with-profile. This business of manually creating profiles is doubly annoying!
The reason it matters to me is that I admin several boxes, and I use different color codes for terminals and editors on the different boxes. I have to keep on re-creating my admin scheme with each new iteration of gnome. Why keep changing it?
OK, rant over; thanks for bearing with me.
--- Often in error; never in doubt!
well, I used BitTorrent and in about 20 hours I had the ISOs burned to a cd... I'm connected via a 256Kb cable connection, so for the 1.7GB download that wasn't too much... At some point the transfer rate was going at the maximum possible (32KB/sec), although I got about 26/27 KB most of the time I cared to look at it...
Bittorrent is amazing. Guess I'll give it more use from now on... I left the client running for a couple of hours after the download finished, but I had to stop it. My cable connection allows me a maximum of 1,5GB per month of upstream (and 5GB downsteam) traffic and it's the first frickin day of the month and I am already at 700mb! Well, at least during the time it took for the download some folks got some parts of their ISOs from me...
Everytime a story comes out on Red Hat, we get the "Red Hat is the MS of Linux" posts and the "F@ck Red Hat, roll your own with Gentoo" and the "Debian Rules" posts.
First, I think Red Hat is far from the MS of Linux. I paid 60 bucks to be a part of RHN and I actually downloaded RH 8.0 without paying anything. Now, I will complain (as I did in a previous story) that it pisses me off that I pay that 60 bucks for "priority ISOs"and I am on my fifth try of downloading RH 9.0 disk 1, but that is a different issue.
It was my understanding that the "goal" of the open source community was to get a "desktop Linux" up and running to compete with MS. Gentoo and Debian are way too complicated for that... I can install Debian and Slackware with difficulty (never had success with Gentoo). But I am a "regular user" with just enough gumption and knowledge to be dangerous to myself when it comes to Linux installs. Frankly, that is why I like Red Hat. I have never had an install problem and I always have a working "desktop computer" to use.
Yeah, rolling your own kernel is great, I guess... I've never actually done it... I frankly don't have the time to sit down and figure it out. I count on solid, trouble free distros like Red Hat to get me a working Linux "desktop system" and then I'll compile Apache the way I want on my own (and I still have to do some planning to get it right). But, most desktop users are just fine and happy with the "easy install" of the system and the software they want (Apache, Open Office... whatever).
If the community ever wants to get Linux out of the background for desktop computing, more time has to be spent on easy installs from ALL distro providers and easy (basically meaning, no command line) configurations. Rolling your own kernel and command line configs will always be be there for the hardcore geeks.