another newbie question

[JEFF MCCRIGHT]

I Agree! I am writing this E-mail to you from my NEC Versa 2435 Laptop
running... You guessed it, RedHat 7.0! It found my PCMCIA Chipset(no other
versions of Linux have done so to this point), and even likes my MegaHertz
Combo XJEM3288 PCMCIA Ethernet/modem card. It even likes my sound Chipset. I
am very pleased with REdHat 7. I have only one complaint so far and that is
that when I try to play wav and mp3 files, they play on pitch but run at
about half its normal speed. I really haven't looked into debugging it yet
as it is such a minor issue to me.

Just my opinion..

Thanks,

Jeff

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:42:26 -0500 (CDT), Jeffrey Watts wrote:

>  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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