RedHat 8.0 - Astounding

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pringlex

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I've just installed this distro, and all I can say is 'wow'.

I've toyed with Linux in the past, but have never really 'got' it enough to switch over from Windows, so I've invariably deleted it and gone back.

However, I decided to give Linux another try recently, after seeing a few screen shots and noticing how much better it looked these days.

I downloaded Mandrake 9.0 and after a few unsuccessful installs (X didn't seem to like my GF4...) I managed to get a useable system up and running. While it was certainly better than my previous experiences, there wasn't really anything that grabbed my attention enough for me to stick with it as my main OS. I carried on playing around with it, but found my self choosing Windows on the boot-up menu more and more often.

I'd noticed that Red Hat also looked quite nice, so I thought 'why the hell not' and downloaded all 5 CDs last night. Burnt 'em this morning, cleaned Mandrake off my hard drive, and sat down and prepared myself to go through the installation procedure at least 3 times.

However, this was not to be. Put the 1st cd in, it installed everything OK, and 20 minutes later it was telling me to reboot and get started with Linux :)

'So far so good' thought I, and rebooted.

After watching all the kernel gibberish scroll up the screen, I encountered my first problem: X wouldn't load. It would just sit there at the text login screen, occasionally flickering as it tried to load up X. I was just about ready to give up once and for all, when a little message box popped up: "I couldn't load X, would you like to see the log files?" I clicked ok, had a quick look through, and noticed that I was having the same problem I had with Mandrake (which eventually was solved by editing a whole bunch of files, recompiling the drivers, a whole load of other stuff that I had no idea about). Red Hat then proceded to load up some kind of X configuration program, which was actually rather nifty, and easy to use! I didn't get any of this with Mandrake, it just left me totally in the dark as to what was going on. After a brief config change, X was loaded up and ready to go! Nice!

My next surprise came when I discovered that my USB mouse was actually working! Try as I might, I couldn't get Mandrake to even acknowledge it existed.

So here I am, sitting in Linux, which is looking pretty damn good at the moment, and I haven't had any serious problems so far!

Hats off (no pun intended) to Red Hat for making such a damn fine distro!

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i feel the same way as well, redhat8 is just the best distro i've tried up to now, even though i only tried a few... :D :p

now i find myself barely booting into windowsXP, .....i only need to do so to play games and write programs, which i don't know how to do in linux yet....... but i plan to get that straight asap...^^

i'll totally ditch windowsXP ( not totally, since i need it to play games) until i can get it to properly configure the video card to at least play divx and xvid movies..... and of course get kazaa lite working....,&^^

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Miran

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I like RH 8.0 but I still find it incredibly annoying that I can't use (and can't figure out how to) my forward and back buttons on my Intellimouse USB. Would it be that hard for X to include a simple GUI as in Windows that lets you map all buttons?

Or is there a way to do this? (I searched google pretty hard)

Oh and one other thing is the difficulty with setting the refresh rate.. How hard would it be to put that option on the graphic menu?

But other than that I do enjoy it!

Just be sure to get the Nvidia drivers if you have a Geforce card (which I am in the middle of doing :) )

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I think I may have to try Redhat since you got your Nvidia card working. I had the same problem with Mandrake 9.0 ... it just wouldn't run 3D games with the nvidia drivers. I think it was using the software drivers, which of course suck and frame rates were unplayable to say the least. My mouse (Logitech Ifeel optical) worked though. Maybe I will wait till the next version of Redhat is final.

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mcnelson

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Hey,

I've got the phoebe beta sat on my hard drive, waiting for both the time and the inclination to go through the install process. My biggest question though, is what would I use it for? I dual boot xp/xp, one system dedicated to music apps, Cubase, soundforge etc. I dig the stability of XP, but I don't need such a bloated OS for these applications. With my other installation dedicated to browsing, games and internet, I dig the simplicity of XPs totally plug & play environment. So, why convert? Curiousity may well get the better of me, and I have plenty of HD space, just someone re-assure me that I may play with Redhat for longer than the 2 days I played with the longhorn alpha!

:rolleyes:

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pagal

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hey mezz...I took your advice and tried to use mplayer but I having some problems with it. First it wouldn't detect a video output, but that I fixed by using mplayer -vo x11, then the sound, but I fixed that too. The only problem I still have is the quality of the movies and the screen size. For example, I played a divx file and the quality was a bit less than in xp and then when I change the screen size, it just maximizes the screen but the size of the video stays the same (its not like that with xine).

any ideas? I wanted to pm you but since you don't like that, I waited for you to come online instead.

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uniacid

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heh I guess redhat is ok.. but I hate that I cant play games, same problem as iomayho, cant get the drivers to work properly, thats why I'm giving up on linux heh, I need to play quake 3, and if I cant then I'm not going to take the time to always be rebooting back into xp for that(bios bootup takes long)

anyways I tried mandrake 9 recently, and I like it much better than Redhat, setup is much better since it detects my mouse, and office keyboard :), also detects my printer, so for me it was easier and plus it comes with blackbox already installed :D

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pringlex

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welcome to the world of linux.. Think you'll switch over now?

I might well do, I haven't installed GF4 drives yet, but assuming I can get them to work, and get Q3 + UT2k3 up and running, I'll be sorted!

I can't get the damn side buttons to work on my Intellimouse USB working either!! Anyone got any ideas on how I can get it work?

But yeah, so far I'm loving it!

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Redhat 8 seems to not like any of my computers. I am unable to install Redhat on either my desktop or laptop, both with different problems. I am able to install Mandrake on both of them without any problems at all, so I can not figure out what the problem is.

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uniacid

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Redhat 8.0 the best linux so far.

why do we call it best? "because it satisfies Windows transformers. "?:laugh::?:laugh:h:

doesnt satisfy me:no:o: only if I had 3d support then I'd be satisfied

typical point-n-click user:laugh:h::laugh:h:

...... I'm not a point n click user. I can't play any games so thats why I'm dissapointed right now, until xfree 4.3 is out...

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