Re: tlug-digest V1 #205

[george@example.com]

>I have just installed RedHat 3.0.3 in a new P5-133 machine here 
>at the lab,
>downloading the packages from ftp.lab.kdd.co.jp to a Sun 
>workstation (a very
>fast site; they are using well the money we pay in international 
>calls :-), 
>and choosing 'install from a NFS mount'. It worked right in the 
>first attempt!

     Congrats!!! I might do that, too. But if anybody has a spare
Red Hat 3.0.3 CD-ROM, I'd like to borrow it. I like to install it
in my home system. A tested and working CD-ROM, that is. 
( See reason below. )

>There are Redhat 3.0.3 CDs been offered for as low as $7. You may 
>want to
>check the ads at Linux-related newsgroups. 

     Be careful with this guys. Somebody in the Red Hat mailing
list discovered and complained that the CD-ROM he bought had miss-
ing important files and caused him a lot of grief. Sorry, I don't
remember the name of the vendor. But you can check it out at the
Red Hat archive.

>But by buying the Official RedHat
>you also get an accelerated X-server (Metro-X, if I am not wrong).

     Some of the guys in the Red Hat mailing list reported that
they were "underwhelmed" by the performance of Metro-X. It pales
in comparison with that of XFree86. I don't have the figures, but
you can also check out the Red Hat archive for that.


Cheers,
George


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