I also did very well with RH7.3 and previous versions of RedHat going back to 6.2, but 8.0 never worked out for me. The system installation seems flawed (clipboard not working right; trouble with IPTables) and apps broken (pppoe, emacs fonts, etc.). My fumbling efforts to fix the problems have led to more problems (right now a gnome crash loop prevents my normal user from using the X server). Part of the problem is the desktop integration that makes manual editing of configuration files difficult.
For example, from a console, how does one edit a file so that windows-switcher won't be loaded by gnome-panel when X server is started? From a console, how does one prevent gnome2 from loading gnome-panel when X server is started? By digging, I discovered a workplace-switcher help file that's more detailed than the one implemented in the workplace switcher, but its links to a workspacelist-prefs file seem invalid. All this undoubtedly due to my ignorance, but I suspect it may also hint that the *.0 version was a bit shakey. I was looking foward to 8.2, but because of my problems, thought I'd even venture an 8.1 upgrade. But I'm sure to be shy of 9.0! Since I prefer to configure files from the keyboard rather than gui configuration utilities, I'm considering debian. However, I'll first try gentoo and move to debian if gentoo overwhelms me. Haines Brown -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
