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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: doublefresh on 24 November 2002, 08:26

Title: Just installed red hat 8.0 first impressions
Post by: doublefresh on 24 November 2002, 08:26

I had put mandrake 9.0 on just two weeks ago but after hearing most of you say red hat was the shit I decided to give it a try.

I like the setup phase more than mandrake except for the fact that it did not auto detect my lan card. (I know it's a small thing but mandrake and even XP can do it) So I had to look up what type of lan card I was using and then it worked fine.oi 0op- (that was cat type) (cat feet on the keyboard)

Anyway I'll let you know more as I try it out.

Title: Just installed red hat 8.0 first impressions
Post by: Bazoukas on 24 November 2002, 21:23

Te he he welcome. Give keramic decoration a try.
 I dont know if you are into programming but check out qt designer. It kicks ass.

  Have fun exploring  :D

Title: Just installed red hat 8.0 first impressions
Post by: slave on 24 November 2002, 10:41

Anjuta and glade are also good if you want to design gtk+ apps.  But Kdevelop and QT designer are hard to beat.    ;)

Title: Just installed red hat 8.0 first impressions
Post by: doublefresh on 24 November 2002, 18:10

Good news bad news.

Mandrake would crash on this computer if you left it idle more than half an hour.

Red hat stayed running all night.

On the weird side I can no longer get on the web with red hat. I click on the icon and Mozillz pops up for a second and then goes away again. WTF???? I never had that happen with a microsoft product. It just turns itself off 5 seconds after I click on it.

Any suggestions ???

Title: Just installed red hat 8.0 first impressions
Post by: slave on 24 November 2002, 21:03

Run mozilla from the console and see what error messages pop up in the background.

Title: Just installed red hat 8.0 first impressions
Post by: voidmain on 24 November 2002, 22:36

You didn't happen to have installed Macromedia flash did you?  If so, this is a similar problem I have had with the flash pluging causing Mozilla to crash when opening a page containing bad flash. If you don't have flash installed I'm not sure because Mozilla has not once crashed on me without flash.