Linked by John Collins on Wed 4th Jun 2003 15:23 UTC
There seem to be many reviews on Red Hat 9.0, but all seem to be written by Linux junkies who really know their stuff. What about the MS Windows Convert? They say people like the first thing they use (i.e. if you learn to drive a manual transmission, you prefer it over automatic). If this is true, how does Red Hat 9.0 introduce a novice pc user to the world of computers? I hope to answer some of those questions in this tiny review.
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Hmm. I've installed two copies of RedHat 9 so far, and neither caused problems with OpenOffice. My guess is that you got a bad disk. As for the error message, I must say I prefer the Linux ones. In the face of an I/O error, Windows gives you a bluescreen with some generic "Stop" message, and a hex dump. This error screen proves to be utterly useless to the advanced user (no info in the message, the hex dump doesn't help unless you have are familier with the source code, and there is no kernel debugger) and at the same time be frightening to the newbie (hex-dumps are *not* friendly). As for the update, I must say I hate RedHat 9's updater as well. Never had the patience to wait for it to go all the way through. It should by Python's fault (many more complex apps than an auto-updater have been written in Python, like Zope), though. Of course, Windws Update isn't exactly that great either. I just Windows updated one of my machines today, and I had to sit through a couple of "exlusive" updates (ones that must be installed individually) and several reboots. My Gentoo updates may take hours to compile, but only take 10 seconds (literally) of my personal time.