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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Everytime anyone mentions installing applications in linux there is undoubtedly a comment along the lines of, "Use apt-get. Its super", usually followed by, "and install the synaptic front end". I've used apt in debian and I currently use the apt4rpm port to SuSE. It's good, but I would hardly say spectacular. I would say the results I have seen with it are slightly below those of using rpmfind or rpmseek. It solves dependency problems about 95% of the time. On monday I performed an apt-get upgrade which put in some non-standard truetype fonts that caused
a) kde to look terrible
b) an error message to popup when I opened a terminal.
I use terminal a lot. I saw many error messages before fixing this by reinstalling the default KDE rpms that came with my distro. My comments here might be biased by having an "upgrade" make my computer's performance noticeably poorer. I will say that my usual process for installing applications is to do an apt-cache search for it, and install if the results look good. If that doesn't work I usually fall back to source.