Re: RedHat 8

[Frank Roberts - SOTL <sotl155360@earthlink.net>]

Not always.
Since I travel a lot and I am seldom at one location I normally use a dial up 
connection.
Down load time for many of the components is normally in the 6 to 24 hour 
range.
At the last linux meeting I attempted to down load RH using a T3 line. 
Unfortunately there were so many others that were attempting to down load 
major programs that in 1 & 1/2 hours I did not succeed.

Point is downloading for some people can be a very non profitable daunting 
experience.

Then after you down load the components you must integrate them. 
For the beginner and lower levels intermediates this may be as impossible as 
brain the normal techie performing brain surgery in the next hour and 
producing satisfactory results in providing a positive benefit to the 
patient.

Thanks

Frank

On Thursday 24 October 2002 09:58, Paul Furness wrote:
> You can indeed install pretty much anything. But that starts to get too
> technical if aren't technical, and too much hassle if you are technical.
> It depends on where you are and what you want. At work, I want to build
> workstations for people quickly and efficiently and I need them to work
> with basic important functions (office things, email, web browsing) with
> the minimum of fuss. I also want to be able to mess around with them if
> someone has a specific need (we are a research lab; you wouldn't
> _believe_ some of the things these guys want to do...)
>
> I like Ximian. For the most part, Ximian on top of RH 7.3 covers pretty
> much all the bases; Ximian covers the holes that Red Hat leaves fairly
> nicely. As I have had occasion to comment elsewhere, Ximian evolution is
> an _excellent_ mail client. It copes nicely with the huge volumes of
> email I get.
>

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