For everyone that is saying that RedHat should offer a way to automatically partition your hard drive, they do. For what I remember of Redhat 5.2 installer, they offer the choice of a Server, Workstation or Custom install. Yes, they could be a bit better about documenting it, but if you select Server or Workstation it automatically partitions your hardrive to a "reasonable" configuration. If someone selects custom, Redhat (and I would too) assumes that you know enough about what your doing to set up partitions yourself.
I think that a much better idea then making Microsoft give away their source code (especially since I know I wouldn't want to have to sift through all of it, including the bugs, to figure out what's going on) would be to make them turn over the Win32 API (as well as all other relevant API's in Windows) to ANSI or ISO. That way everyone would know how everything in the OS works (including all the "hidden" functions in Win32). That would make it possible to not only create a 100% compatible OS which could compete head on with Windows, but would also allow the WINE group and anyone else who wanted to do so to port the Win32 API to other platforms (Half-Life on Linux anyone, or maybe even an OSS Windows?).
Making Win32 a standard would also take away Microsoft's edge in the Applications market. They would lose the ability to use functions that no one else knows about to create a product that has better (well maybe not better but you know what i mean) functionality then competing products (such as Office 97, 2000, whatever vs. Corel Office). For example, this would make it possible for Mozilla to replace IE as the default shell in Win98.
Now I'm not saying this is the best option, and I'm sure that I've overlooked all the bad things that doing this could cause, or maybe I'm just plain wrong...it's just my 2 cents, so no flames please.
If you're using a stock Redhat 5.2 system, then the dhcpcd daemon needs to be updated. Unfortunately, I couldn't find an rpm for the version that is suggested by the 2.2.0/1 documention. But I had no problem downloading and installing the tarball version that was suggested.
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For everyone that is saying that RedHat should offer a way to automatically partition your hard drive, they do. For what I remember of Redhat 5.2 installer, they offer the choice of a Server, Workstation or Custom install. Yes, they could be a bit better about documenting it, but if you select Server or Workstation it automatically partitions your hardrive to a "reasonable" configuration. If someone selects custom, Redhat (and I would too) assumes that you know enough about what your doing to set up partitions yourself.
Rhavyn
I think that a much better idea then making Microsoft give away their source code (especially since I know I wouldn't want to have to sift through all of it, including the bugs, to figure out what's going on) would be to make them turn over the Win32 API (as well as all other relevant API's in Windows) to ANSI or ISO. That way everyone would know how everything in the OS works (including all the "hidden" functions in Win32). That would make it possible to not only create a 100% compatible OS which could compete head on with Windows, but would also allow the WINE group and anyone else who wanted to do so to port the Win32 API to other platforms (Half-Life on Linux anyone, or maybe even an OSS Windows?).
Making Win32 a standard would also take away Microsoft's edge in the Applications market. They would lose the ability to use functions that no one else knows about to create a product that has better (well maybe not better but you know what i mean) functionality then competing products (such as Office 97, 2000, whatever vs. Corel Office). For example, this would make it possible for Mozilla to replace IE as the default shell in Win98.
Now I'm not saying this is the best option, and I'm sure that I've overlooked all the bad things that doing this could cause, or maybe I'm just plain wrong...it's just my 2 cents, so no flames please.
rhavyn
rhavyn@syru148-28.syr.edu
If you're using a stock Redhat 5.2 system, then the dhcpcd daemon needs to be updated. Unfortunately, I couldn't find an rpm for the version that is suggested by the 2.2.0/1 documention. But I had no problem downloading and installing the tarball version that was suggested.