Red Hat 8
Allright, I'm a big RedHat geek. Been using it since 6.1. I've had mixed feelings about the "even" numbered releases, as they all seem to kind of be shit. Looking at the specs of 8 when it came out, I decided to impelement it on my work webserver. And I tried it on my work desktop, but grew to loathe Bluecurve. I have been loving 7.3 since it came out, just because KDE 3 is kind of a nice new, well, KDE. And up2date finally works pretty well.
Last week I decided to disinfect my work laptop with Windows and put RedHat on it. I couldn't get the D-Link NIC to work properly in 7.3 (after much facking around and a couple kernel compiles). I got annoyed and just threw 8 on it. After dicking with the packages, and using Window Maker I kinda like it. And it has cool 802.11b toys.
..but...
I've been having a beast of a time getting anything to compile right on it. WTF? I read somewhere that RedHat was using something different for a compiler in 8, but I have no time to actually look it up. Far as I can tell it's good 'ole GCC, but I hadn't noticed before since I never really took the time to compile/write much under it. The webserver has been fine as the only things I've compiled on it are Apache, Tomcat and the kernel itself. I'm going to put 7.3 back on it, patch the kernel, and just get a different NIC, but in the interim, anybody else having problems with RH8? I just can't live without some of my cool Xterms, and xplanet ;)
Last week I decided to disinfect my work laptop with Windows and put RedHat on it. I couldn't get the D-Link NIC to work properly in 7.3 (after much facking around and a couple kernel compiles). I got annoyed and just threw 8 on it. After dicking with the packages, and using Window Maker I kinda like it. And it has cool 802.11b toys.
..but...
I've been having a beast of a time getting anything to compile right on it. WTF? I read somewhere that RedHat was using something different for a compiler in 8, but I have no time to actually look it up. Far as I can tell it's good 'ole GCC, but I hadn't noticed before since I never really took the time to compile/write much under it. The webserver has been fine as the only things I've compiled on it are Apache, Tomcat and the kernel itself. I'm going to put 7.3 back on it, patch the kernel, and just get a different NIC, but in the interim, anybody else having problems with RH8? I just can't live without some of my cool Xterms, and xplanet ;)
