Re: A few things who still suck in RedHat 8 aka constructive criticism

2002-11-25 Thread Joe Klemmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25 Nov 2002, Ivaylo Toshev wrote: > Why there is no option: REMOVE BLUCURVE !? If anyone wants to use > it - OK, but if i dont - what ? It was my understanding that Bluecurve is just a theme so you should be able to get standard KDE

Re: A few things who still suck in RedHat 8 aka constructive criticism

2002-11-25 Thread Quentin Wright
Tim Waugh wrote: On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 08:58:54PM +0100, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: 2) Better printing management. For one thing when switching from LPRng to CUPS and viceversa I really expect the tool to take care of evrything: ie install the missing parts, stop and start daemons.

Re: A few things who still suck in RedHat 8 aka constructive criticism

2002-11-25 Thread Tim Waugh
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 08:58:54PM +0100, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > 2) Better printing management. For one thing when switching from LPRng > to CUPS and viceversa I really expect the tool to take care of > evrything: ie install the missing parts, stop and start daemons. I agree, and I thin

Re: Distros are all good (was: Re: A few things who still suck in RedHat 8 aka constructive criticism)

2002-11-24 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24 Nov 2002 15:16:35 +0100, Peter Boy wrote: > e.g. Mandrake > May be because of so many bugs they disabled the bug report facility > for their users (you have not only to register as with Redhat or SuSE, > but you have to apply and qualify as a bu

Re: A few things who still suck in RedHat 8 aka constructive criticism

2002-11-23 Thread Herman Christiani
Mandrake 8.* and 9.0 never did work for me, I tried 3 different cd's for MD 9.0, invariably the installer has troubles to open and install packages, mostly the kernel and or xfree. I gave up, no such problems with SuSE or Redhat 8.0 Herman On Sunday 24 November 2002 5:34 am, Anthony Abby wrote: >

Re: A few things who still suck in RedHat 8 aka constructive criticism

2002-11-23 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Rob Blomquist wrote: >Let's see, I am stuck trying to install kdeadmin and koffice from source, and >I am finding that RH has customized things so that we either have to use the >RH version of KDE, or forget it. What is wrong with the included kdeadmin and koffice that are

Re: A few things who still suck in RedHat 8 aka constructive criticism

2002-11-23 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Marco Fioretti wrote: >> Plese. I do not want the problem solved for myself I want >> solved for everyone and that means a native form. > >Why can't that "native form" be "completely intgrate apt-get for RPM >and synaptic" in standard Red Hat? If you wan't Debian,

Re: A few things who still suck in RedHat 8 aka constructive criticism

2002-11-23 Thread Marco Fioretti
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 11:42:46 at 11:42:46AM +0100, Jean Francois Martinez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Plese. I do not want the problem solved for myself I want > solved for everyone and that means a native form. Why can't that "native form" be "completely intgrate apt-get for

Re: A few things who still suck in RedHat 8 aka constructive criticism

2002-11-23 Thread Marco Fioretti
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 00:31:01 at 12:31:01AM -0800, David Durst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I think to appease more users RH needs to come out w/ a TECHNICAL & > NON-TECHNICAL distribution. > David, I agree with you, but one can already have a "TECHNICAL" RH 8.0 distribution, as you call it. I

Re: A few things who still suck in RedHat 8 aka constructive criticism

2002-11-23 Thread David Durst
Great. Not to be a dick but. I think RH has done a great thing for the overall MARKET in 8.0. But what RH needs to remember and I think what I see you are angry at is that 8.0 is not for you and not for the typical LINUX user. But by no means is 8.0 NOT Linux, in fact I think it is the embodiment

Re: A few things who still suck in RedHat 8 aka constructive criticism

2002-11-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Friday 22 November 2002 11:58 am, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: Let's see, I am stuck trying to install kdeadmin and koffice from source, and I am finding that RH has customized things so that we either have to use the RH version of KDE, or forget it. As far as I am concerned: RH broke the

Re: A few things who still suck in RedHat 8 aka constructive criticism

2002-11-22 Thread Warren Togami
Jean Francois Martinez wrote: 1) Better package management: At last we got an RPM front end who Use apt-get and Synaptic for better package management. Find this and many other tips on my Red Hat 8.0 Tips & Tricks page. http://www.mplug.org/phpwiki/index.php/RedHat8.0TipsTricks -- Psyche