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RedHat Linux 5.2 Review COMMENT From: David K After reading your 5.2 column, I thought you might be interested in my thoughts on 6.0. The installation is a breeze. The auto-detection essentially did everything for me ( I didn't have to tell it anything other than what kind of video card I had, and IP configuration ). I did have to do the usual hard-drive configuration, but there isn't much that can be done to simplify that other than put a pretty interface on it that assures you that you aren't destroying anything. :-) Anyone who didn't bother upgrading kernels/kernel sources since installing 5 will probably like the 2.2 kernel more for its further support of common hardware ( in my case, the ES1371 based sound cards ). And anyone with a TNT chipset ( who again, didn't look for a newer SVGA server ) will love the newer 3.3.3.1 SVGA X server, as there is finally support for it. On the down side, the Enlightenment window manager is a complete pig. When I say pig, I mean easily sucking up 20-30MB more RAM than WindowMaker ( my preferred WM ), and running quite sluggish on my computer, a PII-350 with 64MB RAM. To give you an idea, normally, I use less than 2-4MB of swap. Under enlightenment, I was using 35MB! It is certainly a quite elegant and simple to use interface, but the performance cost is beyond unacceptable. The linuxconf program, although handy, is quite sluggish, and will tend to make you wonder whether it is locked up. A progress bar would be a nice addition to this program. Further, it has a nasty tendency of undoing anything that you do behind its back. This is another case where it would be nice if it would do something a little more intelligent ( like ask you on a case-by-case basis ). Further on the downside, RedHat included the new ipchains tools instead of the old ipfwadm tools, and makes no attempt to make this obvious unless you RE-read the documentation on IP-Masquerading. So for anyone who has set up a linux box for IP-Masq'ing, be forewarned... And not really to RedHat's discredit, but certainly an annoyance to anyone who has an existing installation who doesn't want to go through Redhat's upgrade program, the packages they distribute on the CD are all compiled against newer libraries than their old distribution, which makes it a pain in the [insert expletive here] to upgrade or install anything off the CD with rpm because of all the failed dependencies. Overall, I am quite pleased with the simplicity of installation that Redhat is bringing to the Linux community. But there are some serious performance issues that they need to address in their default installations. I'm quite certain that if I didn't know that the problem with X was the window manager, and I was a Linux newbie, I would have been immediately scared back to Windows. The key reason people switch to Linux is for the enhanced performance. If you take that away, then there is little (other than sticking it to Microsoft) left to compel anyone. From: Tom P Good article, I can't wait to read the 6.0 one (even though I already use RH 6.0). One note (that you probably already knew, but you didn't mention it so I thought I would) is that you can download the red hat CD Yes, it does take a while (but I don't care w/ a cable modem). I installed my version from a CD I burned from an ISO image I downloaded. While an ISO image is your best bet when downloading, if you don't have a CDR you can install from your hard drive. UGEEK
RESPONSE Until we post our RedHat 6 review, check out this one at CPU Review.
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