Re: Redhat v9 or v7

From: Ian J Cottee (ian_at_cottee.org)
Date: 10/16/03 

Date: 16 Oct 2003 15:57:58 +0900

"Jeffrey Silverman" <jeffrey@jhu.edu> writes:

> On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:54:58 +0900, Ian J Cottee wrote:
>
> > "Jeffrey Silverman" <jeffrey@jhu.edu> writes:
> >
> >> RHL9 is stable and up to date. I recommend 9 over the 7.x line at this
> >> time. (Not everyone recommends 9, but they are wrong). For a desktop
> >> experience, I recommend KDE3 over Gnome2 as shipped on RedHat's cd's or
> >> downloadable ISOs. The version of Gnome is broken in many frustrating
> >> ways. KDE is not (for the most part).
> >
> > Out of interest - can you give some examples? I use Gnome with RH9 and it
> > generally seems fine to me.
>
> Little things, mostly
> * gnome-sound-recorder absolutely is broken
> * Cannot drag-n-drop or "create New" from file menu within Nautilus'
> applications:/// URL. You should be able to, to create new start menu
> entries. It is possible to reconfigure the installation to work as
> advertised, by why should you have to?
> * RedHat's documentation is inconsistent and wrong in many places.
> * other problems I can't remember right now -- it has been a few months
> since I stopped using Gnome.

OK thanks. I don't use any of these so didn't notice.

> Gnome2 as shipped in RHL9 works fine, for the most part. It just has lots
> of little problems that need workarounds to work. workarounds will get
> the job done, but they are annoying. KDE3, as shipped by RedHat, has *far*
> fewer problems. It is also far more configurable, has far better
> integration among "KDE" applications, has good GUI management tools for
> things like printing, has a much better CD burning front end than any
> "Gnome" CD burner (K3B is *far* superior to Gnome Toaster or X-CDRoast)
> etc etc etc....

Maybe I'll give KDE a try to see what I'm missing. Then again, for
what I do, I'm probably just as happy with a default WindowMaker
install.

Many thanks 

-- 
Ian J Cottee
Nagoya, Japan

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