Life can be sweet

[martyMar]

This is for anyone thinking about installing Redhat instead of windoze... Not really a question..

For the past few weeks my sisters computer has been running on Redhat because it was the only disk she has, well, actually I have that will run on this system. It used to run winblows, but her son screwed it up by inserting a restore disk that has the wrong key codes to it so it was stuck in setup mode and could go no further..

Well finally I got my hands on a Win98 disk with the correct codes and it installs, but it can't run the DSL modem because a file is missing and the modem software is no longer here so...to make a long story short I installed Redhat on the second drive just to see if I could at least get online to install the driver for windows and what happened? I didn't have to download any driver, didn't have to do any configuration whatsoever because Redhat automatically found it all by itself and I didn't so much as have to enter a user password for her DSL account.. It automatically worked from the Redhat installation the first time with no glitches..
Well, I can't say there was NO config needed, but it was absolutly minimal and the stuff every OS has to get configed for like the time, language settings etc..

If youre debating this should have made your mind up for you... Redhat is the one in my book for simplicity.. Now I want to begin to tackle the tougher stuff.. I finally set up partitions so...off we go.....

Later,
MM

[El_Cu_Guy]

So basically you're praising RH based on the following:

Old Windows 98 doesn't play nice with my [newer] hardware, because it was released long before the hardware was even manufactured.

Had to get the driver from somewhere else.

The newer RH8 plays nice.

Didn't have to look for anything because the driver was already there, likely due to the fact that RH8 was released after the hardware had been on the market for awhile or because the manufacturer supports GNU/Linux.

Wow, intriguing </sarcasm>

[CMonster]

martyMar -glad to hear of your success and welcome to JustLinux.com

I'm just guessing that your sister has a self-authenticating modem that hands out IP address via DHCP

I remember a time not long ago when anything USB was next to impossible in Linux -isn't it great how more and more hardware is being supported by GNU/Linux? Now if only you can get sis to "Linux" a little :)

-and hey, it's not just OLD Win98 that chokes on drivers -I've seen it plenty of times with the MS Flagship XP as well... and to think, Red Hat didn't ask you to activate your OS in order to use it :D

[DMR]

Originally posted by El_Cu_Guy
So basically you're praising RH based on the following:

Old Windows 98 doesn't play nice with my [newer] hardware, because it was released long before the hardware was even manufactured.

Had to get the driver from somewhere else.

The newer RH8 plays nice.

Didn't have to look for anything because the driver was already there, likely due to the fact that RH8 was released after the hardware had been on the market for awhile or because the manufacturer supports GNU/Linux.

Wow, intriguing </sarcasm> E_C_G: I think you should direct everyone to read the title in your user text whenever you respond to a post; it would obviate the need for the <sarcasm> tags... (BTW, you've got a syntax error there- no opening <sarcasm> for the closing </sarcasm>).

:p