On 11 Apr 2003, Benjamin Vander Jagt wrote: >Prelink > >When I was using RedHat 8, I spied in the release notes a command to run >to try out prelinking; something like /usr/sbin/prelink --all >--conserve-memory. I tried it, got a few errors, and everything >continued to work fine. Nothing crashed, no quirks, no missing >libraries, etc. It was slow, though. In fact, it took about three >times as long to start Mozilla. I did the same on another RedHat 8 >system with the same results. > >(Sorry, I never tried it in 8.1.) There was never a Red Hat Linux 8.1, so you couldn't have tried it if you wanted to. ;o) >Why oh why does that damned list keep jumping to the top? Here's the >annoyance: Start xscreensaver-demo (preferences->screensaver), don't >click anything except the scrollbar, and scroll down in the list. Click >something, and you're automagically teleported to the top of the list. >(It truly is just an annoyance. By the way, obsessive compulsives >around the world thank RedHat immensely for starting GNOME with the >panel icons all nicely squished together!) Of course, don't knock >yourselves out. It's just a twitch. That is an annoyance in the stock xscreensaver source code, not something that we've added, at least to the best of my knowledge. I do agree it is quite annoying though. Patches welcome. >configuration and rebuilding the kernel but to no avail. I even tried >downloading and installing an updated ALSA, and even dumping the RH8.1 >ALSA stuff into 8.0, but there are so many incompatibilities that I >would be best off just installing 8.1.) 9 installed, and when it played There has never been a Red Hat Linux 8.1 release though, and we've never shipped ALSA before to the best of my knowledge, so you couldn't install 8.1. >8.1 didn't have this problem. That's right, because there has never been a Red Hat Linux 8.1 release before so it couldn't have had any problems let alone this one. >I still choose RH "at the drop of a hat", so to speak. I'm just curious >as to why I've had so much more trouble with 9 than I did with 8.1-3. >(It's nothing sentimental, since 8.1, um, misplaced all my files for >me.) Perhaps you're refering to Mandrake 8.1, Slackware 8.1, SuSE 8.1 or some other version 8.1 distribution, because Red Hat has never had an 8.1 distribution. 7 -> 7.1 -> 7.2 -> 7.3 -> 8.0 -> 9 No 8.1. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat
