Subject: Re: Red Hat 8.0
From: Scott Johnson (sjohnson@akghetto.com)
Date: Sun Oct 06 2002 - 17:15:54 AKDT
http://games.gci.net/pub/Linux/RedHat/
Thank Leif & GCI for the backbone hookup.
Scott
On Sunday, Oct 6, 2002, at 13:28 America/Anchorage, Tim Johnson wrote:
>
> 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!
> --
> Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>
> http://www.alaska-internet-solutions.com
> http://www.johnsons-web.com
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