Re: tlug: Problems with Motif 2.0 and XFree86-3.3.1

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Alan" == Alan B Stone <stoneab@example.com> writes:

    Alan> Thanks for the advice.  I haven't had any other
    Alan> problems with RedHat, but this one has made me a little mad.

Most people don't, AFAICT.  I've had a couple with oddball hardware,
and a couple of dependency problems.  I don't like the "our software
knows better than you do philosophy", but to be fair, that is sort of
inevitable given the quest for the floppy-less install.

    Alan> Right after I purchased Motif 2.0, and figured out that I
    Alan> was having problems with XFree86, they come out with Motif
    Alan> 2.01 and didn't even bother to put any patches or upgrades
    Alan> to 2.0 online.

Have you tried mail to their support address (I believe they have
one)?  This looks like an oversight to me, the kind of thing they'll
fix real quick.

    Alan> I've thought about switching, but after looking at other
    Alan> packages running on others systems, I decided to stay with
    Alan> RedHat.  There are too many other functions built-in that I
    Alan> can't convince myself to live without.

Which is a great advertisement, not only for RedHat but for Linux
too.  "Un*x for the masses" has just about arrived :-)
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