[luau] Startup Disk for 7.2

[Dan George]

Warren
               Im not really efficient with Linux on installing drivers even
though I have the 7.x driver on my Netgear CD for my sony laptop, I dont
know how to configure it in the etc/pcmcia files in 7.1 which I installed on
my laptop.  But of course if you think I should use 7.3 and that it may
already have the latest drivers available Im willing to do that.  But how
would I install the 7.3 package when my first attempt at burning the 7.2 and
7.3 version failed.  Maybe I should just break down and buy it?  Or can you
email instructions on how to do this which I will gladly trade any
information I may have that may be valueble to you.  I believe a version of
Dreamweaver and Flash MX for Linux is coming.. My scrub buddies on the
mainland have told me.

Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Warren Togami" <warren at togami.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: [luau] Startup Disk for 7.2


> I do agree that Red Hat 7.2 + all Errata packages is very stable and
usable,
> but it takes a while to upgrade.  Do you normally apply all updates?  It
is
> very easy with Red Hat Network and up2date.
>
> Red Hat 7.3 has a much newer kernel that supports more hardware, KDE 3.0.0
> which is a big improvement over KDE 2.2.2, and also hundreds of other bug
> fixes over Red Hat 7.2.  Linuxconf was removed because it is a poorly
> written and unreliable tool.  Often it becomes unusable and freezes for
> seemingly no reason if you have modified configs (like networking) either
> manually or with other tools.  Notice that even Mandrake re-wrote all the
> tools within Linuxconf within their new DrakConf.  I would suspect that
> Linuxconf is slated for removal from Mandrake too.
>
> If you REALLY want Linuxconf you can install the Linuxconf packages from
Red
> Hat 7.2, or from the official Linuxconf site:
> http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf
>
> Red Hat removed Linuxconf because it was a constant nightmare of bugs that
> were unsupportable because it is so poorly designed.  They however made a
> mistake in replacing it with a set of poorly organized tools that are
> difficult to find, however functional.  I have criticized them on this
> point, and I hope that they will fix this by the next (possibly 8.0)
> version.  Mandrake's DrakConf or SuSE's YaST model is very good by
> comparison.
>
> Ultimately you shouldn't need to rely on GUI or TUI config tools.  You
> become a better administrator if you learn about manually editing the text
> config files, because your knowledge transfers to other Linux, BSD and
Unix
> systems which may have different configuration tools.  Your overall
> understanding of how the system works too, meaning quicker diagnosis of
> problems that you may encounter down the line.
>
> This being said, I am willing to help anyone learn these skills.  Please
ask
> if you would like to learn about 7.3 (without Linuxconf) ways of
configuring
> certain things.  I'll write about the replacement config tools, and manual
> config editing.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan George" <LinuxDan at hawaii.rr.com>
> To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 3:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [luau] Startup Disk for 7.2
>
>
> > Warren
> >              What is there to like about 7.3?  Its displacing all the
> great
> > Linux commands from the command line interface like Linuxconf.  In class
> our
> > instructor criticized 7.3 and instead of instructing in 7.3 he used 7.2.
> > But unfortuneately the disk copy I have is bad of 7.2 and they dont sell
> it
> > anymore at CompUSA.
> >
> > Dan
>
>
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