Any Linux Fans Here?

[Colani1200]

That's why you use something else than RedHat. RedHat is notoriously bad in package management.

Why that? Both yum (Fedora) and up2date (RHEL) work absolutely fine for me.

[Colani1200]

mgerics wrote:
I'd really like to set up Quake2, as I am an addict. Can anyone out there point to a tutrial that explains how to do so?

Hmm... shouldn't be too difficult. You might want to have a look at quake2forge. Which distro are you running? Probably there are also pre-compiled packages. On my FreeBSD box I just had to do a "portinstall quake2forge"  :-D

[Colani1200]

Piru wrote:
RPM Hell

You normally don't use RPM directly. There are frontends like yum or up2date. (Like apt-get for dpkg).

[Colani1200]

So now that we have discussed that... anyone here willing to give a lecture on MUI class hell?  :lol:

[Colani1200]

I guess I will have to tough it out with RHEL for a while.

I don't think you will be happy with RHEL as a home user. As the name already implies, it is focussed on business and server use, that means high availability, stability, backported patches and the like. Many packages that are interesting for home users like multimedia stuff, games etc. are not included in the distribution. And don't forget it costs quite a lot of money on a yearly subscription basis (eg. RHEL standard ~ EUR 500 per year).