The up to now highly anticipated Red Hat Linux 9 is finally released. OSNews had its hands to the final version of Red Hat Linux 9 for over 3 weeks now and we were able to evaluate it in a number of ways. The final version is not too different than the Phoebe-3 beta for which we wrote a preview recently.
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>Does a user need to MANUALLY enable DMA in this day and aga
>in 2003 on an OS like Red Hat? If yes, then Linux is far more
>behind that I thought it was.
All the machines I've put RH8 or 9 on (about 5 of them) ALL had DMA enabled by default... I really doubt the MP3 problem has to do with the hard drive. I think it just has to do with xmms...
>Does a user need to MANUALLY enable DMA in this day and aga
>in 2003 on an OS like Red Hat? If yes, then Linux is far more
>behind that I thought it was.
All the machines I've put RH8 or 9 on (about 5 of them) ALL had DMA enabled by default... I really doubt the MP3 problem has to do with the hard drive. I think it just has to do with xmms...