Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 10th Apr 2003 18:00 UTC
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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I'm writing this at a newly installed Redhat 9 system, but find myself working remotely on my NetBSD box!
Well, some points of criticism: first, why do I have to download 3 CDs for a standard install, and the 3rd CD only installs mutt! Secondly, why can't I abort the installation when I have only downloaded the first CD. Redhat only displays a dialog box "insert CD no. X", no opportunity to skip some packages, or whatever. Thirdly, once installed I see no way to see what packages I can install (like Debian's dselect, or *BSD's pkgsrc tree). I have to browse through the CDs. Fourth, unless you do the default install, there's no way to reinstall packages (probably there is, but I'm not familiar with rpm), and there's not even a friendly message, "read the help file in /foo/bar/HELP". I just installed without GNOME, and now I have twm and no information about how to install GNOME except doing a reinstall... Fifth, there's no mplayer and no gnomeicu. Really, I want to have a decent ICQ client which gets my contact list from the server, and I _certainly_ want to be able to watch videos.
What I did I download more than one GB for, with not even a video player? Is this Redhat's grand strategy to make the average Windows user switch "yeah, pay 50 bucks, and not even watch movies, cool"?
The above might sound a bit rude, but I'm really embarrassed about the state of the art in Linux systems!
Oh by the way, Redhat boots up *dog slow*!
I'll go on working on NetBSD, with the occasional WinXP for games, etc.