BeachBum
28-11-2002, 09:43 PM
I've been a supporter of RH for some years now but was dismayed by how poor their latest offer is.
I've been running RH 7.3 with a k-desktop and everything working that I needed including MP3, CD burner and document scanning.
I thought I'd try the upgrade option but plainly that was my first mistake. It went through all the motions of an upgrade, wrote the boot loader to the master partition table without asking and then corrupted my WinXP install. :( After sorting the resultant mess I found that not only had all my linux settings evaporated but that MP3 would no longer play, the CD burner's fires had gone out and the document scanner may as well have been made of stone. :(
I thought I'd try the default install with Gnome (which I detest) as the desktop. That went no better and I'm not at all impressed with the new version of Gnome, or any version thus far!
My last try was a clean install of the KDE desktop which did at least partly succeed but with the MP3, CD writer and scanner all failing as before. I must admit that KDE on RH 8 looks to be stable and much tidier than previous versions but I was in no mood to read through a mountain of new documentation so as to get a few simple requirements for my system working.
Finally at 0230 I rebuilt my RH 7.3 system and sighed at the total waste of time on an OS upgrade that was not to be.
Without doubt subsequent releases of RH will again allow for a stable install with minimum disruption to an already well tried and reliable OS. Such an option is not available with RH 8 though, a dist I believe should never have been released!
Norton Ghost backups of both RH 7.3 and WinXP allowed a return to "normality" sooner than may otherwise have been the case with, say, a flaky OS driven backup.
I've been running RH 7.3 with a k-desktop and everything working that I needed including MP3, CD burner and document scanning.
I thought I'd try the upgrade option but plainly that was my first mistake. It went through all the motions of an upgrade, wrote the boot loader to the master partition table without asking and then corrupted my WinXP install. :( After sorting the resultant mess I found that not only had all my linux settings evaporated but that MP3 would no longer play, the CD burner's fires had gone out and the document scanner may as well have been made of stone. :(
I thought I'd try the default install with Gnome (which I detest) as the desktop. That went no better and I'm not at all impressed with the new version of Gnome, or any version thus far!
My last try was a clean install of the KDE desktop which did at least partly succeed but with the MP3, CD writer and scanner all failing as before. I must admit that KDE on RH 8 looks to be stable and much tidier than previous versions but I was in no mood to read through a mountain of new documentation so as to get a few simple requirements for my system working.
Finally at 0230 I rebuilt my RH 7.3 system and sighed at the total waste of time on an OS upgrade that was not to be.
Without doubt subsequent releases of RH will again allow for a stable install with minimum disruption to an already well tried and reliable OS. Such an option is not available with RH 8 though, a dist I believe should never have been released!
Norton Ghost backups of both RH 7.3 and WinXP allowed a return to "normality" sooner than may otherwise have been the case with, say, a flaky OS driven backup.