[ale] RH8.0: first impressions

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 19:28, Joe wrote:
> Got the ISOs, burnt them, blew Slack 8.1 off of my laptop and fired up the
> Anaconda installer.
> 
> The good:
> 
> - Very simple install.
> - Very nice looking screens all over the place.
> - Detected and set up the video, display, mouse, and kbd correctly, first try.

Yep! 
> 
> The bad:
> 
> - Good lord, it's slow. I don't know how they did it, but they figured out
> how to make Linux perform like Windows.

Nautilus is nice, but there is a serious performance hit. 

> - It has no clue about the sound (which is 100% SB compatible).

It may be due to a sound chip using an odd DMA setting. 

> - It has no clue about my PRISM2 802.11b card. I was using the wlan-ng
> driver with it under Slack, but RH doesn't include wlan-ng, so it's
> trying to use the wvlan_cs driver. I've made that work before, but
> not with WEP, and RH doesn't know how to configure PCMCIA netcards
> (or so it seems).

Due to the pre-beta aspect of large parts of the  wlan-ng stuff (lots it
ready for release, but other parts are still flaky) My USB prism2 is not
supported at all (it is claimed to be but...)

I've had good luck with pcmcia under RedHat. It has "just worked". The
new "wizard" stuff is bit too windowish but you can set the device to
use for each ethx device
> 
> [OK, I just found the "Internet Connection Wizard", which seems to want
> to let me set my WEP key and ESSID, but it still won't hook up with
> my AP... grr. It keeps resetting the ESSID to "non-spec".]
> 
> All in all, I'm a bit disappointed so far. Maybe I need to give it
> time.

I have yet to play with 8.1, but what I have read is it has a much need
speed boost from nautilus and the window manager. 8.2 should be great :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- Joe Knapka
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