[ale] Need help on RH5.2

[Patrick Ramsey]

It kinda sounds like you are not liking change in general..  :)

Well... Let's start like this.

I was a RedHat fan.  I started out with 5.2 and now run 6.0.  (The 6.0 install is sweet)

I have recently installed SuSE 6.1 and was amazed at its install and config software (all the way around!)
It comes with a butt load of software (including Star Office 5.0 (sweet))  It's file structure is completely different than the file structure I am accustomed too but it is growing on me.

My advice:  (whish is what I am also following) Learn every flavor of Linux and its quirks.  Do custom installs so that if you chose, you can make your file system exactly the same as any other flavour.  (with minor differences)

Then brag to all your buddies about knowing more than they do.  :p  <grin>

Don't sweat the differences...Find the qualities of each and expand on them.  And if it comes down to it and you just hate one flavor over the other, screw it.  Go with your heart...  :)

-Patrick


>>> Michael B Golden <naugrim at juno.com> 06/02 12:40 PM >>>
	I decided to take advice that many have given and try out a more
'updated' distribution. I had an RH5.2 CD, so I moved my personal HD into
this family computer and performed an RH install on it. The install was
nice although it took a long time. (Several hours, most of that for
formatting). My impressions with RH now are not too good. I don't like
the look of RPM, though I do like the dependency checking. Slack's
pkgtool looks nicer. I think the RH file system is cluttered with a bunch
of crap. Slack's was simple and efficient. The config files in RH are
screwy. (I spent a long time of removing lines from config files just to
make it run something other than fvwm) KDE is nice, but slow. KDM looks
nice, and I would like to be able to use it.

Problems:
1. I don't like RH's prompt. Is there anyway to change it to look like
Slackwares?
2. When I move windows in KDE, the leave trails, so I continually have to
R-click and refresh the screen. Is there any way to fix that?
3. I can't shutdown from kdm. I tell it to and it won't shutdown. I try
going into a wm and getting an xterm up and trying it there, and that
doesn't work, I tried telinit 6, and that doesn't work. The first time, I
had to use the switch, and the second time, I kept trying to make it
work, and then it said no more processes in this runlevel and rebooted.
How can I fix this so that I can tell it to reboot and it actually do it?
4. How do I set up dial-up for internet? In Slack there is a pppsetup,
but I can't find it in RH.
5. Is there any way to see all of the installed packages? (Like pkgtool
can do)
6. Anything else to make this experience worthwhile.

Do any of the other distributions look and feel like Slackware, but stay
updated, use a real package manager, and are libc6? Unless I get a lot of
help to make this feel right, I will be trying another soon.

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Michael Golden
Naugrim at Juno.com (Normal, no attachments)
MGolden at Airapps.com (Only for messages with attachments.)
Slackware 3.5 (2.2.6) Linux user -- Linux Advocate

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