Red Hat 7.1 - the good, the bad and the ugly

Wed Apr 25 14:27:42 PDT 2001

VMWARE for RH 7.1 worked fine for me.......hmmm...

Jeff Barrows

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Mings [mailto:jeffm at lava.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 3:31 PM
To: Linux & Unix Advocates & Users
Subject: [luau] Red Hat 7.1 - the good, the bad and the ugly

After finally downloading the 2 CDs from a site Warren suggested, I've spent
a good deal of time moving from RH 6.2 to 7.1.  I performed a clean install,
rather than using the upgrade option, since that's almost always the least
problematic in the long run.

The Good:
KDE 2.11.  Mmmmm... pretty graphics, nice toys.  Xfree86 4.0.3 - now, Bzflag
(the cool 3D tank game) looks MUCH better.   When the new Gimp started up, I
couldn't stop smiling at all of the new features to check out.  Lots of
coolness all around.  Ping now reports fast ICMP echoes in microseconds!

The Bad:
No matter what, I can't get MySQL to initialize correctly!  After running
install_db, and then running safe_mysqld to fire up the daemon, mysqladmin
flatly denies its running, and examining the ps output and mysql log tends
to support it.   Instructions followed to the letter.   I never had this
kind of trouble when compiling it from source.  A few other things (like the
excellent LinNeighborhood) may not work with the 2.4.x kernels for a while.
Don't try to use the flashplayer included with Mozilla.  It's the older
version and doesn't work anyway.

The Ugly:
Vmware coughed up a furball when I tried to run it.  From their site: 

RedHat Linux 7.1 and the 2.4.x kernel: Red Hat Linux 7.1 was released on
April 16, 2001. Currently, Red Hat 7.1 and other distributions that use the
2.4.x kernel are not supported as host operating systems for VMware
Workstation 2.0.3 for Linux. Our engineering team is working on this
compatibility issue and we will release an update to fix it as soon as
possible. 

Still, this release looks pretty good.  Just gotta get the kinks out.

-Jeff

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