another newbie question

[Jeffrey Watts]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, will goodman wrote:

> hey, i'm new to this list, i'm just curious about which version of
> redhat is a good one to start out on.  i'd assume that 7.0 would be
> best, but i've heard that it's really buggy and i should hold off.  

Don't belive the hype.  I installed Red Hat 7.0 on my Toshiba Tecra 8000
laptop with no problems to speak of.  It even correctly initializes my
ToPIC97 PCMCIA chipset which older versions had a hard time with.

Note:  this "Red Hat 7 is buggy" thread came about because some moron did
a search on Bugzilla for _all_ open tickets on RH7, which includes feature
requests, developer comments, and problem not found tickets.  Overall I'm
very pleased with the changes in RH7.  Very nice distro overall.  It's
more secure than RH6.x, and includes software like OpenSSH/OpenSSL,
Gnome-Lokkit, and xinetd (very nice program).

Only suggestion is that you should apply the errata right after you
install it (but you were going to do that anyway, right?).  That fixes the
minor annoyances that were present.

Also, Best Buy has a great sale on RH7 - you can get the standard edition
for $19.99 - that's $10 off the regular price.

J.

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