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Re: comment to RH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David L. Martin)
Thu Oct 31 09:03:43 1996
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 06:05:39 -0500 (EST)
From: "David L. Martin" <dlmarti@pluto.njcc.com>
To: Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199610310415.XAA32081@redhat.com>
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On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Donnie Barnes wrote:
> 4.0 is a stable system that does install fine in most cases
> from CD-ROM (at least as easily as 3.0.3). Those "customers"
> should be happy. It had bugs in the FTP install which we
> regret, but have likely fixed. It has some updates that are
> required, but we've made that as painless as we can as well.
I recieved my 4.0 disks yesterday. I installed it on a test PC:
Dell P200, 16 Meg Ram, 2.2 Gig Harddrive, #9 video (S3 Trio64, 8X ATAPI CDROM.
The installation was very easy.
After rebooting I had several problems:
Mount point "/dos" was not created during install.
MetroX appears flaky, after a few minutes of playing it crashes.
Several problems in 3.0.3 still have not been fixed, example:
MetroX config software does not correctly setup my ps2 mouse.
"/usr/games/mille" still does not work.
etc...
Just walking around the X11/bin and trying different pieces of software
I found several that wouldn't run. What gives?
All totaled, after 30 minutes of playing around I had half a dozen
corefiles scattered around. I never encountered this number of problems
with 3.0.3.
I haven't decided yet, but it looks like I'm going to wait for a more
stable release. I just don't know if I'll have the time to find
workarounds for all these problems. I guess I'm out the fifty bucks....
David L. Martin <dlmarti@pluto.njcc.com>
R&D Software Engineer <dlmarti@accusort.com>
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