Honestly Amazed By RedHat 9

[lonodnboi2k3]

This morning I was on my Computer, like most mornings and the redhat agent kept bugging to update my software....

Now after my windows experience 2 years ago, I have never updated anything on my computer because it either stops responding or slows down to a compleate crawl.....

Now dont get me wrong, i am not compareing windows with GNU/Linux by anymeans.... But as the saying goes, once bitten twice shy!!!

But I havent used windows at home for such a long time now, and i only have Linux on my computers.

Anyways, to cut a very long story short,  I decided to take the plunge, It told me there was an updated Kernel, and a few other updated software RPMS. So i duley decided i will update the lot..... Now, Once it was all downloaded, it installed it all.....

Now....  I got really worried, because the Up2Date software crashed and i could not recover the software so i had to KILL it.

I thought to my self, here we go again, I have made a mistake updating and might have to reinstall my system........ How wrong i was.

Anyways, i rebooted my computer and was told i had a new kernal, which i booted. It started so quickly i was nearly blinded by the speed, and it got to the command prompt in under 20 seconds, as apposed to usally over 1 min of waiting.

Altho, X did not start, which i expected anyway because of the kernal update. But redhat decided the it would help me reinstall my graphics card automaticly when it noticed it could not load the NVIDIA module.

It installed the Generic version, and booted right in to Gnome.

From there it was a quick edit of the X config with VI and i was sorted.

So, I am very happy with the update process, i dont even mind the crash of the up2date software.

So, i just wanted everyone to know which is why im posting this here.

Londonboi

P.S.  Anyone wanna help me create a Sig for here??? I think i need one!!!

[Calum]

glad to hear it, you might be interested in the free alternative to up2date though, it's a version of debian's apt for RH look here:

http://voidmain.kicks-ass.net/redhat/redhat_9_apt-get_must_have.html

[lonodnboi2k3]

Thanks for the avice. I have apt-get for RH9 installed on my computer, but i can only seem to get a download speed of 2kb/s max.....

I cant seem to change the source of where it downloads from   :mad:

[Calum]

the relevant file to edit would be

/etc/apt/sources.list

but i am not sure how you would find out some additional lines to put in there to speed it all up, though i know a lot of rpm repositories exist around with this and that software in them that you can add to that file. i found out about it here:
http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=583

[Faust]

There is a tool (apt spy I think) in the Debian repositories to check various mirrors and sort them by categories (such as speed.)  Not sure if a similar one exists for RH though.

[lonodnboi2k3]

Hi, Thanks for telling me the file to edit! I ssh'd in to my computer at home and tried to change the files, i also from some repostrys aswell which i added to the config file and it seems to work really well now... I installed freecraft    (Just to test it of course)

It worked perfectly.