My Final Linux Conclusions~

[newbie~wan]

Maybe I'm missed it, but did you post your ENTIRE system specs yet? I cant believe how many problems you're having. I complained like a whiny b*tch when my NIC didnt have drivers.

Did you check the distro's website to see if your hardware was all supported. Not that its an absolutely definite list, there is lots of hardware that is compatible that is not mentioned.
But, if they explicity say "NOT compatible" or "certified", you can count on either of those recommendations.

I'll second CMonster, sometimes we miss the obvious. The obvious errors usually become just that if you just forget about something a while and worry about it later......

[storm2k]

linux is nice, but they need to improve it. basically, they need to improve the "just install it and it works" mentality that exists with windows... plus they need better configuration. mandrake's tools are pretty good, but mandrake doesn't exist well on my system. i installed redhat and liked it. but they have almost NO configuration tools beyond what comes with KDE. they need to improve on this big time if they ever hope to gain more mainstream acceptance with linux.

[JimG]

This isn't related to Linux ... but I want to thank CMonster for his post, especially discussing the SCSI stuff. This may help me in getting my system to work again. And if I get really nuts, I'll try installing Linux on it and see if will co-exist with Win2k. Right now Linux has it's own computer.

[CMonster]

storm2k -

My son is in close contact with representatives at Redhat and they have explained to him that right now the big push over there is the lucrative server market. However, they mentioned that they have a few "things in the works" including an "auto-detection configuration wizard" and will begin seriously targeting the desktop by late 2002.

[Cody]

I contacted a RedHat Rep on OPN a while back and told him that RedHat would be much better with a central Configuration Tool...

he laughed and said "What do you need that for?"

And I said that first of all not all Linux users have all day to sit around and futz to get their mouse/X Server (and other things) to work.

He told me that "Start Here" did the same thing

yeah... right... a bunch of shortcuts put together

uh-huh

I hope he doesn't represent them all.

[stodge]

Originally posted by storm2k
linux is nice, but they need to improve it. basically, they need to improve the "just install it and it works" mentality that exists with windows... plus they need better configuration. mandrake's tools are pretty good, but mandrake doesn't exist well on my system. i installed redhat and liked it. but they have almost NO configuration tools beyond what comes with KDE. they need to improve on this big time if they ever hope to gain more mainstream acceptance with linux.

I installed Mandrake 8.1 and it works. Out of the box, well off of the CDs I mean. The only thing I had to do was install Truetype fonts, and that was simple enough using Drakfont.

I understand your point of view, but I don't fully agree with it. I think your comment is a little too blase; you make too many blanket statements. I haven't followed your history that you implied in an earlier post, but after this post I have no desire to.

So if something doesn't install right on your PC, then it needs improving? Sorry, this world doesn't revolve around you. I started out knowing nothing about Linux, but since that day I have tried Redmond Linux, Redhat, Mandrake, Slackware and Debian. I can happily install and run a Mandrake 8.1 from everything that I've learned.