[ale] RH8.0: first impressions

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On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 05:28:29PM -0700, Joe wrote:
> Got the ISOs, burnt them, blew Slack 8.1 off of my laptop and fired up the
> Anaconda installer.

Why not repartition so that you can have both, each in a separate partition?

I'm very happy with Slackware 8.1 on my ThinkPad.  Works great, blindingly
fast, no crashes.

> The good:

> - Very simple install.
> - Very nice looking screens all over the place.
> - Detected and set up the video, display, mouse, and kbd correctly, first try.

And this was different than Slackware 8.1 how?  All of this was trivial for
me (except X).

> The bad:

> - Good lord, it's slow. I don't know how they did it, but they figured out
> how to make Linux perform like Windows.
> - It has no clue about the sound (which is 100% SB compatible).
> - It has no clue about my PRISM2 802.11b card. I was using the wlan-ng
> driver with it under Slack, but RH doesn't include wlan-ng, so it's
> trying to use the wvlan_cs driver. I've made that work before, but
> not with WEP, and RH doesn't know how to configure PCMCIA netcards
> (or so it seems).

> [OK, I just found the "Internet Connection Wizard", which seems to want
> to let me set my WEP key and ESSID, but it still won't hook up with
> my AP... grr. It keeps resetting the ESSID to "non-spec".]

> All in all, I'm a bit disappointed so far. Maybe I need to give it
> time.

> Cheers,

> -- Joe Knapka

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