Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 25th Oct 2002 08:37 UTC
A month ago we published the world's exclusive review of Red Hat 8.0, Download Edition. In the meatime Red Hat, Inc. sent us a box of their newest product, Red Hat Professional. While the OS is pretty much the same as in the download edition and we have already made an extensive article on it, a few additional goodies await the customer in the box and we review them.
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Why on earth are you compiling from sourceforge tar balls on a Red Hat box?
You obviously have very little experience or understanding of Red Hat...there is very little software that is not available in some form of Red Hat compatible RPM (or SRPM)
RPM is really easy to use...download the RPMS you need to their own directory and type 'rpm -Uvh *.rpm'
or you could also pickup apt for rpm at freshrpms.net
either way, there is almost no reason to compile apps from source on Red Hat, also Red Hat is the STANDARD for linux, if it doesn't work on Red Hat, guess what, YOU are probably doing something wrong, not Red Hat, for instance, you probably forgot a dependency by compiling from source (as great as autoconf is, it doesn't always find all the dependencies you really need)...virtually all Linux developers at least test on Red Hat for compatibility
just face it, you, like several 3l337ists have a hatred for Red Hat, and that's your right, just don't complain that it's hard to install software on, because it's clearly not
-bytes256