Does Red Hack suck?

[philip]

On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 10:35, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> On Monday 08 November 2004 21:53, Gavin Hemphill wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> 
> If you succeed please tell us. It looks like synaptic will install KDE on ix86 
> but NOT on PPC.
> Anyway, it was a good way to have to learn configuring Gnome. I still like KDE 
> better, but after some tweaking you can live with it (the file management is 
> awfull, however).
> 
> Thierry 
Hi there,
	I have been following this thread with some interest and I had to put
my two cents worth in.
	I was looking forward to YDL 4 as a way of upgrading my old iMac dvse
with mixed feelings. I remember the fun of configuring 3.0, video
drivers and sound problems, let alone just trying to download three good
iso images in the first place and we wont mention that first yum
update...Arrrrgh
	A few weeks ago a friend recommended I try Ubuntu...What the hey. I
have been using it now for about three weeks and for my needs on an
aging G3 Ubuntu is more than adequate.  It works sound and all, with the
ati video driver all working seamlessly. This from a single cd iso and 
mirror sites that  makes terrasoft ftp look very tired. The installer is
not anaconda, it is different, seems pretty much idiot proof and
designed with the complete newbie novice in mind.
	One criticism that can be made of all red hat variants is that whilst
complete, they are a bit bloated. Conversely Ubuntu is pretty bare bones
but the apt archive that synaptic points too seems to have every thing I
have needed to set my machine up. I think I might be satisfied. 
-- 
Philip Noon <philip at hereweare.org>