Red Hat: Stick with Windows at home

[Tomas]

why did he not promote osx instead? clearly that is a better OS than windows.. kinda weird of redhat to suddently back off like this, since they have been promoting linux on desktop for such a long time now.. kinda a big slap in the face to the other linux distros also.. i guess redhat got greedy... they see much more money on the enterprise side and clearly do not want to see any other linux distros profit on the desktop side, since they obiousely failed there.

[Tomas]

I think its pretty stupid that a CEO of a company says 'don't use our product' ...

They went enterprise server only.. they ditched desktop/free distro totally and now obiousely dont want anyone else to make profit on desktop side either.

[Tomas]

I totally agree with seehund...
I installed mandrake 8.x on my parents pc a year or so back, they have no problems using it at all  :-D They actually thinks it is great! since they have not been having a single crash since it was installed.. uptime on 75-80 days now

[Tomas]

Why do I have to log in?

You can make linux/kde automaticly login the user just as windows... most newer distros ask if you want to use that option after install, just as windows.

Now, imagine he was running Linux. First of all, he's got to install it. Swap partition

that is also automaticly setup in any modern distro.

With Windows, he can basically just slide a CD in the drive and click "Install", and still he wants me to do it for him

same thing can you do with many native linux software too  :-)

[Tomas]

Perhaps folks should try out the latest SuSE or Mandrake and get a real idea of how friendly Linux can be.

I personally think that newer mandrake distros are way more user friendly than any of the redhat ones.. I cant say antyhing about SuSE though, no experience with it.

I can this though... mandrake supported all hardware out of the box on both my athlon, my dads p4 and my old compaq armada laptop. Only thing i had to do on my athlon was replacing the open source nvidia driver with the official one from nvidia, to get good perfomance out of my gfx card  :-D I did not install a single driver except for that.

[Tomas]

Poster: carls Date: 2003/11/7 13:42:20
@Tomas
Installing nvidia's own linux driver requires heavy usage of the command prompt as well as hand-editing of your XF86Config. Yes, I tried Yanc etc. but it added stuff in the wrong sections and basically behaved badly.
You also have to understand the concept of root vs. normal users to do something like this.

I just typed: "sh Nvidiadrivername.bin" or actually i just typed sh NV and pressed tab, as that completes the filename, just as nickcompleter in nick  :-D
Then i went into my favorite txt editor and changed the gfx driver name from "nv" too "nvidia" and pressed save. that's all there was to it.. takes you a couple of minutes max  :-D no reboots needed either, other than restarting the xserver/logout from X/kde