19 Oct
2000
19 Oct
'00
7:35 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great Sellam Ismail once stated:
RH 7.0 is out now. I'm hoping it will be a major improvement over 6.2.
You haven't been following the news, have you? 7.0 is *the worst*
distribution of RedHat so far---it's so buggy RedHat didn't have it on hand
for the recent Linux Convention in Atlanta.
I'd wait until 7.2.
In other news, I've never had trouble with Linux crashing (unless it was
hardware related), and I've had relatively few problems with Windows (some,
but only after Microsoft Office was installed but that's another story).
But I only run stable kernels like 1.2.13 (formerly) and 2.0.36 (current
kernel). I haven't used 2.2 or 2.4 so I don't know how good they are, but
so far, 2.0 is good enough for what I use it for.
To put this somewhat on target, I'm running 2.0.36 on 10 year old hardware
(mostly 486s) and it runs fine.
-spc (Although to be fair, I have seen problems in 2.0.36 that required
reboots to reset certain sub-sections but a friend and I were able
to fix it since we had the source code)