Does Red Hack suck?

[Ryan Nix]

Mandrake 10.1 is out, so we have many alternatives.

Also, Fedora Core 3 is out and it certainly doesn't suck!  I tried RC2 
and I was thoroughly impressed.  Gnome keeps kickin butt.  I was 
disappointed to see the Bluecurve navigation, which I feel is necessary 
to make it more seamless for a Windows user to switch, has gone away in 
favor of the default Gnome settings.

Supposedly, this should make things like mounting USB hard drives 
easier.  I'm very glad since I bought a new Rio Carbon on Friday!  $50 
less than an iPod Mini, 1 gig more of space AND its smaller.  :)


Gavin Hemphill wrote:

> Ok, so how does Ubuntu make it work so seamlessly on both my TIPB and 
> ALPB.  Not only that, my PCI scsi cards seem to work under Ubuntu on 
> my Quicksilver.  Not only that, I just did a ubuntu install to a 
> firewire disk, out of the box - this isn't to say I've got firewire 
> figured out completely under kernel 2.6 but the Ubuntu installer sure 
> can deal with it - it screws up when you actually boot the 2.6 kernel 
> on the firewire device, but I figure that's probably some arguments to 
> mkinitrd, modules etc that I had to figure out under the old 2.4 
> kernels to get things booting off firewire.  Hmmm, even power 
> management seems to be at least partially functional on the ALPB under 
> Ubuntu and works great on the TIPB.  I've even seen security upgrades 
> already.
>
> For a distro that I've only had a day and a bit to play around with I 
> must say I'm really really impressed.  I'll even give up KDE for all 
> the other advantages I've seen so far - but maybe I'll just apt-get 
> KDE and see what happens since I'm playing around.
>
> I've also installed Ubuntu on a couple of I386 boxes, one a few years 
> old and one days old, with the same painless install and upgrade.  All 
> I have to figure out now is how to support Ubuntu since they don't 
> sell distributions.  hmmmm maybe I'll set up a North American mirror 
> for them.
>     G++
>
> Owen Stampflee wrote:
>
>> Guys,
>>
>> The sound issue is a known issue on YDL4... we're working on it. The
>> fact is that the PowerMac sound drivers really suck, and it doesnt
>> matter what distro that you go with, sound will be still an issue.
>> Security errata will be coming more regularly, but we're busy... there
>> was a large amount of security errata done in April, it was just never
>> announced.
>>
>> Even though our engineering staff has doubled (2 full timers, 2 part
>> timers) in size in the last year, we have a lot of work to do... with
>> both myself and AJ working crazy hours every week, we're barely able to
>> keep up... this will also mean YDL4.1 will be started very soon, and
>> it'll be a stabilized version of FC3 and a mix of YDL4, we're also
>> planning on doing some fun stuff on YDL.net, like iPod support, other
>> cool apps that get lots of chatter in the linux world, and some
>> component upgrades (lets hope we dont get sued for MP3 usage).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Owen
>
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