Good Bye Gnome, Hello KDE, I hope

[Alan Dayley]

If bad suff happens when you use the GUI, I would suspect the video driver or X-server is configured wrong or has a problem.

I have installed Red Hat 7.3 on more than a dozen boxes.  A few times I have had to tweak drivers or something like that but never had instability.  This is on 166MHz to 1.5+ GHz and various hardware.  Several of them are now running RH 8.0 and one is running RH 9.

I did have one box with an IDE controller known by the Linux community to be flakey.  This I learned after some significant frustration and whining about how Win98 worked fine on it.  Replacing that controller solved the whole issue.

"chew carefully"  That's good!

Alan

-------Original Message-------
From: Phil Mattison <mattison@ohmikron.com>
Sent: 06/12/03 02:00 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Good Bye Gnome, Hello KDE, I hope

> 
> This system is a PentiumIII 600MHz with 128MB RAM in a genuine Intel
motherboard. No strange hardware, recent Netgear PCI LAN card, ordinary
ATA
CD-ROM drive and floppy, SIS-300 graphics chip, and that's it. Took me
about
a day and a half to install RH7.3, get samba running and setup Apache. Its
fairly stable so long as I connect via SSH from a remote terminal or move
files via samba (I edit on a Win98 box). I used to leave it on for weeks
at
a time. But I like to use the KDE email reader to check my server logs
etc,
and gradually I noticed a correlation between using that and system
instability. Now I shut it down every night and minimize my KDE/Gnome
usage,
so the effort to figure out the problem is more than that of avoiding it.
I
have a RH8.0 box set I was going to upgrade to, but heard that RH major
releases tend to be the least stable (what the !?!?!). I think the
open-source community is like the Bizarro world of computing, to borrow
from
Sienfeld. Just the same, I love a free lunch. I guess I just have to chew
carefully.
--Phil M.