Two Gripes About Red Hat - Did These Get Fixed?
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I started with Red Hat. It was some version in the 5's somewhere, maybe earlier. Didn't have Gnome or KDE. I later stepped up to RH 6.1. I quickly found out that RH doesn't necessarily store stuff in thr standard Linux locations, which can make compiling programs (especially KDE programs) a pain.
Later I tried RH 7.0. It was ok except that my USB printer wasn't supported. Oh, I could manually load the modules AFTER boot and get it to work. But neither RH tech support nor I could figure out how to make it setup during the boot process.
In between RH 6.1 and 7.0, I tried Debian Potato and got my USB printer to setup with no problem (don't ask about the ISA PnP SB 16 soundcard, though).
I really hope RH has made it a lot easier to use normal everyday devices with this distro. They've done a lot for Linux; I'd like to see them do more.
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I started with Red Hat. It was some version in the 5's somewhere, maybe earlier. Didn't have Gnome or KDE. I later stepped up to RH 6.1. I quickly found out that RH doesn't necessarily store stuff in thr standard Linux locations, which can make compiling programs (especially KDE programs) a pain.
Later I tried RH 7.0. It was ok except that my USB printer wasn't supported. Oh, I could manually load the modules AFTER boot and get it to work. But neither RH tech support nor I could figure out how to make it setup during the boot process.
In between RH 6.1 and 7.0, I tried Debian Potato and got my USB printer to setup with no problem (don't ask about the ISA PnP SB 16 soundcard, though).
I really hope RH has made it a lot easier to use normal everyday devices with this distro. They've done a lot for Linux; I'd like to see them do more.
...unless you just REALLY couldn't get into B5....