On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 09:11, you wrote: > So I'm just wondering: is it worthwhile to stay with RH7.3, No. > or should I go on to more recent distributions? Without doubt!
> If so, which one, and why? Opening a beehive here :-) Sorry can't help myself. :-) ftp://203.96.92.95/gentoo/releases/x86/1.4/livecd/i686/i686-1.4-20030803-cd1.iso It just works. The dependency problems have been sorted out. The WWW based forums are polite and informative. The irc channel is available 24/7 and similarly polite and informative. You comp. will go ( slightly ) faster. You will learn much more about Linux than with the other packaged distributions. You have complete control over what gets put on your machine. Those are the up reasons The down side is that you need a reasonably fast computer. 400 MHz abs minimum, because you need to be able to compile the packages which are not part of the binary distribution in a reasonable time frame. It is a pretty good notion to have an Internet connection which is faster than a modem. It's not essential though if you have sufficient patience. Also there are list members who have archives of source code which they are prepared to share. > cheers > > Jaco > > Shane Hollis wrote: > >Chris Sawtell will confirm or deny this one for me but it is my > > understanding you should be able to patch or upgrade your kernel using > > the kernel.org site? > > > >If not let me know and I will be happy to lend, give, sell my Redhat 9 > > CD's as required and as it legal. RH 7.3 was fine but RH9 is another > > beast all together an am not enjoying it. > > > >Shane > > > >>OT: RPM's are evil, and so is RH. Tried to upgrade my kernel for five > >>nights in a row, and got kicked of very time after 30 min cause I'm not a > >>paying member and their bandwidth is limited for for non-payers. Where > >>another ten minutes the first night would have done it. I call that > >>positively stupid. RedHat do not want anything to do with the little people any more. While they are not ( yet ) totally evil bounders like much of Corporate America they are unfortunaltly slowly becoming infected. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
