On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 07:17, Norman Nunn wrote: > I recently tried WS Rel 3 and elected to reinstall RH9. Rel 3 installed > ok and ran fine; however, I was disappointed with the selection of > applications available. I use Gnucash and it was missing as well as > others in the multimedia area. As an enterprise solution, it probably > fits well with the needs of major companies but for a home user, it fell > short of what I wanted. I also had a difficult time locating a source > of RPM's built for Rel 3. That may have changed since December. There > was so much missing that I did not want to install from the tar files. > Anyway, I am sorting out the options myself. > > Norm > > On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 21:56, Craig White wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 20:59, joe wrote: > > > Craig Toenes wrote: > > > > > > >I currently have RH 9 and I am not hip enough for > > > >Fedora. > > > >I saw that RH recently came out with a "Professional > > > >Workstation" that has updates and is renewable. My > > > >question is.. Do you think this is a good option for > > > >those of us who are not savy enough for developement? > > > >If I can do an upgrade as opposed to a fresh install, > > > >this would be perfect for someone like me that wants > > > >to > > > >use RH on a personal scale. What do you guys think? > > > > > > > > > > > If you are prettty happy with RH 9, and don't want to get down with > > > fedora, the Pro Workstation idea makes sense - the management features > > > make it a good choice for the workspace, but no reason it can't be used > > > at home too. > > > > > > BTW I like fedora, in most ways it feels just like RH 9.1 - IOW it's > > > like a faster, less buggy version of RH9. > > --- > > I think that the upgrade paths are likely to go smoother with their EL > > products than with Fedora. Though Fedora upgrade (from RH 9) went > > -- ----- I think that you should have no problem whatsoever installing rpm's targeting for RH 8.0/9 on AS 3 - I haven't so far but the issue is that you cannot use up2date to resolve dependencies if the primary target rpm isn't part of the distribution. I have installed some things - like netatalk from source tarball - which required the use of the kernel-unsupported-modules (appletalk isn't supported by AS 3 beyond the separately installable modules rpm). I got directory assistant to install (worthless for samba-3 users) and it was a bit of struggle to identify all of the dependent packages - but I did get it going. But yes, this was for an enterprise customer so it was appropos. Craig -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
