Linked by paul pianta on Wed 2nd Apr 2003 17:43 UTC
This is by no means a technical review - it is just a summary of my experience as I was going along, installing and configuring a Red Hat Linux 9 machine. I installed the standard "workstation" installation on my 2 year old desktop machine. I like Gnome at home, KDE at work, but this review only covers my experience with the default Gnome installation.
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>Obviously you need to read a review or two cause you're not >aware of what you're talking about. Some things are >innovative redhat sponsored the NPTL patch OSnews (and every >other site) made a big stink about that speeds up X >significantly merged into 2.5.63 kernel? well Redhat 9 has it >as far as I know nobody else has put it in 2.4.x It's an NPTL >patch
>http://www.kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=603
Although I agree that Red Hat is responsible for a lot of innovation... I think that you are mixing up things (hopefully someone can confirm this for me). That link (the whole stink about X speed up) doesn't really have anything to do with Red Hat's NPTL.
In fact, Red Hat people consistently claim that NPTL will not really have any benefit for the desktop.
I can't wait for the X-starvation fix to find its way into my red hat installation...