Re: ownership of devices

[nospam [at] croome.net (Chris Croome)]

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:18:07 +0100, Richard <r.ibbotson [at] zetnet.co.uk> wrote:

> I'd really like to see a finished version of Gnome. The early
>versions that I've used were a bit wobbly. But I do like it and
>would like to see more of it.
>
> Perhaps Red Hat will release a new product soon ?

There will be a lot of newer versions out already - try www.gnome.org or the
lastest RH rawhide: ftp://rawhide.redhat.com/

I switched to the latest rawhide for NFS and it's a lot better

However be careful with the rawhides - I ran starbuck (one of the rawhides
between RH5.2 and 6.0) on my server for a while and quite a lot of stuff was
broken.

I suspect that RH will wait for kernal support for USB to get sorted better
before they release a new version, maybe XFS (the file system SGI have just
GPL'd) too, but I guess this will take some time to get intergrated.

I don't know if E will be the main WM in future versions though because
Rasterman (the main man behind E) has left RH, and there was quite a bit of
bitterness at the time (kudos to him though - he didn't want to turn E into a
windoze clone - he will have lost a fortune in share options as a result - he
left a couple of months before the IPO!). I really like E though and I'm
prepared to stick with it's buggyness as I find the extent which KDE has copied
windoze to be a bit creepy.

While on the subject of RH, a pet annoyance of mine is LinuxConf -- I find it
generally breaks stuff which was fine before -- it's the main reason I took the
plunge and learnt a few basic vi (vim) commands so I could sort stuff in telnet.

Chris

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