[Sheflug] Finally got a working setup!!

["Netsonic" <netsonic [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm on a little bit of a buzz at the moment  :O)

After trawling through a dozen or so distro's I've finally found one that
actually works on my hardware 100%, which is Redhat 8.0

I had it on disk from when it was first released, but for some reason it
didnt seem to work so well when I tried it back then.

I did a clean install a couple of days ago, left it running for a few hours
to download all the updates from Redhat, and then downloaded a couple of
extras like the Java VM from Sun, Opera and a modem driver that picked up my
modem perfectly first time. Ive just been setting up VMware tonight and the
M$ stuff installed inside of that runs just as fast as it did under its own
steam!

KDE seems to have improved no end since I last tried to use it seriously.
The themes and the whole appearance of it are just sooo much nicer than M$
stuff IMO. Im just waiting for KDE 3.1 to be officially added to the Redhat
update list, which there site says should be in the next 4-5 days.

The default driver for my video card (Radeon 8500) installed straight away
and has given me the full capabilities I need from the card, which is
1600x1200 running at 100 Hz  in 24 bit color. KDE looks absolutely crisp on
that :)

In fact, the only thing I havent really tried using so far is infra-red,
which i normally use to organise my mobile and send text messages from the
desktop when Im at home. If anybody has any experience of using infra-red
under Redhat, I'd be interested in hearing about it.

So far, my only (minor) complaint would be about the menus. They look fab
under KDE, but they just have absolutely no apparent organisation at all.
There are configuration tools all over the place, and although the menu
editor is very easy to use, for me personally, it lacks the configuration
options I would have liked (Or maybe they are there hidden away somewhere,
and I just haven't found them yet!).

Assuming it carries on working as it has so far, I would expect to be
migrating across to it permanently within the next week or so.

Before I can do that though, I do have a large number of mp3's (around 5000
or so) which I need to be able to read from an NTFS formatted disk, copy
across, and then reformat the disk with Redhat. I know the Redhat site
mentions something about read-only NTFS support, but I can't seem to find it
right now. I've had a look at the services, and been through all the
software package lists.

I'd be most appreciative if anybody could point me in the right direction
for setting up the NTFS access properly.

Steve  <=== Happy-Chappy!




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