Subject: Re: Red Hat 8.0
From: Tim Johnson (tim@johnsons-web.com)
Date: Sun Oct 06 2002 - 13:28:34 AKDT
Hi Justin:
* Justin Dieters <enderak@gci.net> [021006 12:21]:
>
> Okay, I now have all the Red Hat 8 ISO's (Thanks Leif!) and if anyone
> needs CD's, I can make copies. All I ask is you provide replacement
I'm in Palmer, but have DSL. What link
did you download the ISOs from?
> blanks, and you have to come pick them up by Wednesday (I'm going
> out-of-state for a while starting Thursday) Also, let me know what CD's
> you want - there are 5 discs, but only the first 3 are used in the install.
>
> I installed it this morning on my test partition, and it looks pretty
> clean and polished, but it seems like they dumbed it down too much...
> Under the Internet menu, you have three choices - 'Web Browser'
> (Mozilla), 'E-Mail' (Evolution) and 'Instant Messager' (Gaim) There is a
> few more entries in an 'Extras' submenu, but why make it so diffucult to
> find something as simple as an FTP client? It might be nice for new
> users, but for experienced Linux users, it seems like the lack of
> options could get frustrating fast..
Was that KDE? or Gnome? And is there still a menu editor?
>
> Also, it's true - no mp3 support (ogg works fine) but xmms.org has an
> rpm up to add mp3 support for xmms. Although I'm still confused as to
> why they didn't ship with mp3 support - free software decoders are not
> subject to licensing fees... <shrug>
Thanks Justin!
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Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>
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