linux still has some distance to cover before it is truely considered desktop ready, it is getting there. On 28 May 2003, Neil Marjoram wrote: > Can I just cause a little stir? > > Get some opinions maybe. > > I've left the fold - I even considered the dark side for a few seconds! > What am I talking about ? RH 8.0 / RH 9.0, I am now using Mandrake 9.1, > because I'm a little fed up with problems like : > > Acrobat > Realplayer > Gmplayer > HPOJ > HPIJS > WACOM > wave_lan > etc.................. > > Yes after hours of work I now have a system working, but ahhh it's a SMP > running usb so the printer locks up. > > Oh and let me see linuxprinting.org - yes printer works perfectly - > given aprox 20 hours of stress. > > So I tried SUSE - the same, but Mandrake, well thats different. Only > thing left is wacom - but can't get it off the wife to test yet! > > As a server I use RH 7.3, it's good, but at the momenet I have no plans > to migrate to 8 or 9. As a desktop I want the latest fancy stuff so by > by RH. > > How about before the next release (10 or is it 11) can we get the > desktop to work, instead of adding things like the redhat look and feel. > > My experience, just so you don't think I'm a newbie. > > RHCE on RH 8.0 > With Linux since 1997 / 8 > Unix admin since 1993 - AIX 3 - 4.3 / Solaris 2.5 - 9 / Tru64 > > Linux used RH 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 /9 > Mandrake 9.1 > SUSE 5 / 8 > > Please can we push RH to get this sorted? RH8/9 are in my list of worst > *ix's ever! > > End of rant.....! > > > Neil. > > # > # > >
