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Martin Marvinski wrote: Another Windows programmer bites the dust having Linux doesn't mean i gave up on Windows (i'm actually upgrading from RH 6.1). i'm still a Windows programmer even tho i can't find a job as a Windows programmer and my own sales of Windows software are at their lowest point since 1998 - you know, everything that made Windows a better choice than Linux...:) -c
bit, n: A unit of measure applied to color. Twenty-four-bit color refers to expensive $3 color as opposed to the cheaper 25 cent, or two-bit, color that use to be available a few years ago.
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anyone tried it yet? i spent all day yesterday finding mirrors that were quick enough (here[^]), and then i burnt the ISOs. when i went to install them on my linux box, the CD-ROM drive made crunching sounds and refused to open. :( so, i bought a new (52x! $35!) one today and found out that one of the ISOs was bad. three hours later, i had good copies of all CDs and now i'm installing. but my poor P180 is so pitifully slow that it's going to take over an hour to install the thing. :( but, on the bright side - the installer looks great! RedHat has obviously hired some graphic designers this time around. IMO, it's nicer looking than the Win2K installer. :~ if it ever finished (38 minutes in!), i'll see if the new stuff was worth the effort. :rolleyes: until then.... :beer: -c
bit, n: A unit of measure applied to color. Twenty-four-bit color refers to expensive $3 color as opposed to the cheaper 25 cent, or two-bit, color that use to be available a few years ago.
and damn, it looks good. but, the fonts in mozilla make it almost impossible to read the thread titles here :( -c
bit, n: A unit of measure applied to color. Twenty-four-bit color refers to expensive $3 color as opposed to the cheaper 25 cent, or two-bit, color that use to be available a few years ago.
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and damn, it looks good. but, the fonts in mozilla make it almost impossible to read the thread titles here :( -c
bit, n: A unit of measure applied to color. Twenty-four-bit color refers to expensive $3 color as opposed to the cheaper 25 cent, or two-bit, color that use to be available a few years ago.
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Chris Losinger wrote: i'm actually upgrading from RH 6.1 I've got RH 7.3 on a partition. I'm curious as to what the differences are between 7.3 and 8.0?? Any ideas??
Mike Mullikin :beer: You can't really dust for vomit. Nigel Tufnel - Spinal Tap
i skipped the whole 7.x series, so i can't say for sure. but they've obviously updated the kernel, the various packages, etc.. and i've heard they've done some work to help merge (sortof) KDE and Gnome.- i only use Gnome, so i can't really attest to that, tho. the installer is much better than the 6.x - no hassling with the xconfigurator, it just worked. sweet. -c
bit, n: A unit of measure applied to color. Twenty-four-bit color refers to expensive $3 color as opposed to the cheaper 25 cent, or two-bit, color that use to be available a few years ago.
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i skipped the whole 7.x series, so i can't say for sure. but they've obviously updated the kernel, the various packages, etc.. and i've heard they've done some work to help merge (sortof) KDE and Gnome.- i only use Gnome, so i can't really attest to that, tho. the installer is much better than the 6.x - no hassling with the xconfigurator, it just worked. sweet. -c
bit, n: A unit of measure applied to color. Twenty-four-bit color refers to expensive $3 color as opposed to the cheaper 25 cent, or two-bit, color that use to be available a few years ago.
Yeah, I checked it out at www.redhat.com and it looks pretty nice. Some of the stuff, installer and kernel haven't changed too much (if at all) from 7.3, but the addition of Bluecurve, OpenOffice, Mozilla, Evolution are new.
Mike Mullikin :beer: You can't really dust for vomit. Nigel Tufnel - Spinal Tap
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anyone tried it yet? i spent all day yesterday finding mirrors that were quick enough (here[^]), and then i burnt the ISOs. when i went to install them on my linux box, the CD-ROM drive made crunching sounds and refused to open. :( so, i bought a new (52x! $35!) one today and found out that one of the ISOs was bad. three hours later, i had good copies of all CDs and now i'm installing. but my poor P180 is so pitifully slow that it's going to take over an hour to install the thing. :( but, on the bright side - the installer looks great! RedHat has obviously hired some graphic designers this time around. IMO, it's nicer looking than the Win2K installer. :~ if it ever finished (38 minutes in!), i'll see if the new stuff was worth the effort. :rolleyes: until then.... :beer: -c
bit, n: A unit of measure applied to color. Twenty-four-bit color refers to expensive $3 color as opposed to the cheaper 25 cent, or two-bit, color that use to be available a few years ago.
I'd like to try a Linux distro again. I've tried a few in the past, but I've always had a horrible time trying to set up the XServer with my previous graphics card. Any idea if any of the new distro's support dual-head video cards (radeon8500), because I can't go back to just one monitor (even if my second one is an old fishbowl.
people are not very wise / don't know their limitations / don't know what death means / when they play their dirty games
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i skipped the whole 7.x series, so i can't say for sure. but they've obviously updated the kernel, the various packages, etc.. and i've heard they've done some work to help merge (sortof) KDE and Gnome.- i only use Gnome, so i can't really attest to that, tho. the installer is much better than the 6.x - no hassling with the xconfigurator, it just worked. sweet. -c
bit, n: A unit of measure applied to color. Twenty-four-bit color refers to expensive $3 color as opposed to the cheaper 25 cent, or two-bit, color that use to be available a few years ago.
Question - Gnome has an update utility, which seemed to automatically update the OS. Unfortunately BT nuked our line for our Linux box at work, so I have been unable to try it out since the release of 8 a couple of days ago. Do you know if it will manage to update to 8, or just to the last release of 7.whatever?
The following statement about your geekness is true. The previous statement about your geekness is false.
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Question - Gnome has an update utility, which seemed to automatically update the OS. Unfortunately BT nuked our line for our Linux box at work, so I have been unable to try it out since the release of 8 a couple of days ago. Do you know if it will manage to update to 8, or just to the last release of 7.whatever?
The following statement about your geekness is true. The previous statement about your geekness is false.
i really don't know. sorry. i never used 7.x, or Gnome's auto-update stuff. -c
No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. -- Terry Pratchett,
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anyone tried it yet? i spent all day yesterday finding mirrors that were quick enough (here[^]), and then i burnt the ISOs. when i went to install them on my linux box, the CD-ROM drive made crunching sounds and refused to open. :( so, i bought a new (52x! $35!) one today and found out that one of the ISOs was bad. three hours later, i had good copies of all CDs and now i'm installing. but my poor P180 is so pitifully slow that it's going to take over an hour to install the thing. :( but, on the bright side - the installer looks great! RedHat has obviously hired some graphic designers this time around. IMO, it's nicer looking than the Win2K installer. :~ if it ever finished (38 minutes in!), i'll see if the new stuff was worth the effort. :rolleyes: until then.... :beer: -c
bit, n: A unit of measure applied to color. Twenty-four-bit color refers to expensive $3 color as opposed to the cheaper 25 cent, or two-bit, color that use to be available a few years ago.
I've got it on my laptop, but I don't know yet if I like it. I was using Mandrake 9.0, but there were problems with the 2.4.19 kernel and the laptop that the 2.4.18 kernel does not exhibit, They really munged up KDE (if that's your GUI of choice). ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends
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I'd like to try a Linux distro again. I've tried a few in the past, but I've always had a horrible time trying to set up the XServer with my previous graphics card. Any idea if any of the new distro's support dual-head video cards (radeon8500), because I can't go back to just one monitor (even if my second one is an old fishbowl.
people are not very wise / don't know their limitations / don't know what death means / when they play their dirty games
'Killing Fields' Funker VogtIt's not the distro thast supports the card, it's the version of xfree that the distro uses. Anything from 4.20 and up supports the 8500, and ATI has also released linux drivers for that card. :) ------- signature starts "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001 Please review the Legal Disclaimer in my bio. ------- signature ends
