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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yes, X matrix is cool
recently installed RH 8.0 from the SAMS teach yerself manual onto a 2nd user totally blank compaq deskpro (pII 233 mhz with 280 odd Mb RAM).... hehe - i had a lot of fun trying to get it to load up from either a boot floppy or the cd (getting kernel panic errors all over the shop- man - that made ME panic!) untill i tripped to compaq's pages and made a set of diagnostic floppies. Once i'd figured out i needed to diable translation on the HDD's, Bob was my uncle,and it installed fine, apart from my monitor wasn't listed and generic just made my screen go funny (opted for a more specific 600x400 res svga monitor in the end) - i chose the auto settings during partition setup, coz i have no idea whatsoever
now it's all working lovely apart from a few gripes.
why do i have such a cluttered start menu thing when i click the red hat??
fair enough i loaded some kde apps, gnome apps aswell and use the gnome desktop (bluecurved of course) but when i have some audio players in my sound n vid menu (xmms for example), and then ANOTHER aound and vid menu hidden away in extra's or something, which has more players (like noatun)... well, it begs the question, why aren't all the similar apps under the same menu? ok, linux heads out there will tell me that i can reconfigure it all, but to a windows user it's all a little confusing and frustrating looking for an app in an obvious place for it not to be there.
anyway, it's not crashed on me yet, xmatrix is a superb screensaver and gnuchess on xboard is stonking!
all in all miles better than win 95 - i wonder what RH 9.0 is like
ninja_boy