Re: Problems with Redhat 9

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 01:17:04PM -0500, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom told me:
> we do choose our hardware for its linux compatibility (Mylex SCSI RAID;
> 3ware IDE RAID); but we generally don't have to worry about big proprietary
> software on linux (compilers, veritas, etc).

Doesn't 3-Ware rock? (sorry had to throw that one out there)! We use them for
every cluster master node we build practically!

Lucky that you don't have to deal with the big proprietary vendors...

I just had a ticket with a certain unnamed backup vendor because their Java GUI
does not work correctly. Modal windows sometimes get permanently mini zed, and
because they are modal you can not touch any other windows until it is closed!
Very annoying. After almost 2 months of waiting they came back to say that
metacity is just unsupported, and they changed this from a bug fix to a
feature request!  Putz's!!!

> some people here think futzing with the nVidia drivers is worth the hassle
> of recompiling the stub driver for each new kernel; I personally would just
> prefer to avoid the cards entirely.

I am on your side here! I have had nothing but problems with those drivers!
Even filesystem corruption on more then one box!

> > Once again, you /may/ be able to hack all of these to work, but why? There is
> > a supported system.
> 
> but it's not an *ideal* supported system. :)
> YMMV tho.

That is why the community needs to build it. We need to create the ideal!

> if you have clueful users who can do it themselves; then that's no big deal.
> most of the customers I've seen who want linux on the desktop, want
> something that's a lot simpler. Indeed, they want something that's even
> simpler than Windows, and easier to secure.
> (I'm thinking IceWM).

Easier then Windows, and they want to run Linux? Have they seen OSX? 

> I think on the whole we agree with each other; we just have different
> environments constraining our solutions.

I think so too, and a good discussion!

Greg
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