FW: [ale] Re: RH 6.0

[Eric Z. Ayers]

After we installed RH 6.0, we noticed a few problems on our Cyrix
P233+.  We are on a masqueraded network w/o DNS:

- gnome / enligntenment was S-l-O-w... but turning off the solid window
   dragging feature sped things up.

- running su is s-L-o-W  (I don't think we installed NIS). It seems to 
   hang for several minutes the first time you run it.

- set -o vi in bash doesn't work (someone else commented on this)

Other than that it looks pretty cool...  The boot sequence looks kind
of HP-UX'ish and seems to give you lots of nice details about what's
going on.  It's the easiest installation of Gnome seen to date, but
some things seem to be crashing...

I'm sure we'll iron these things out. 

-Eric.


Allen, Paula J. writes:
 > 
 > I second on the RH 6.0!!!  I have noticed at least two drivers on my Compaq
 > Workstation that were not in RH 5.2.  I have to use "expert" mode to get to
 > these, which the on-screen instructions don't go into very well, and you get
 > more choices.  Since my status is "less than novice", I frustrated myself no
 > end using normal mode to install  ...pj
 > 
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Patrick Ramsey [mailto:Ramsey_Patrick at promina.org]
 > Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 2:18 PM
 > To: ale at ale.org
 > Subject: [ale] Re:
 > 
 > 
 > Dude, go get the latest Xfree and or RedHat 6.0
 > 
 > (I would suggest the latter of the two.... RH6.0 installs VERY nicely and
 > comes with the latest drivers for multiple cards and the Gnome interface)
 > 
 > Actually now that I think about it, I don't believe Xfree supports the
 > Banshee yet...  You may want to go to Xfree's site and look under supported
 > hardware to see if you card is there. (www.xfree.org)
 > 
 > If your card is not supported by standard Xfree servers, so a search on
 > lycos or something for banshee and Xfree or xserver... I do believe there is
 > a 3rd party server for Xfree.  I remember vaguely seeing the guys web page
 > but do not remember the links I followed to get there.. :)
 > 
 > -Patrick