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Mike Herman (mike@hernix.org) wrote:
: 
: Red Hat?  Surely you jest!
: I purchased RH 2.0 and 2.1 and thought both of them were junk!
: I tried for days to get it to network with my Sun system, and gave up.

	Hint:
	/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth

	I'm not quite sure what you mean by hard to network... I had my RH
Linux 2.0 system networked to my Slackware 2.3 system in a rather short
period of time.. (well, after I took the time to read the parameters for
route and ifconfig :)  
	As for Slackware.. it is a piece of rubbish, plain and simple.
I dunno if I really have confidence in a distribution that uses a total
partition wipe and a reinstall as the "upgrade" option. :)  


: I then went to InfoMagic Slackware distribution, and had it up and
: networking with NO problems at all.  I also did not like the RH RPM
: upgrade method.  
	rpm -Uvh packagename.rpm 
	I'm not quite sure what's so complicated about that... did you
overlook something when you were installing the system??  Besides, if you
had X running you could have used Glint to upgrade packages.. much nicer
than the commandline rpm with little icons and everything. (though a
little slow)

: uuchk also failed to run on RH, due to the way they
	
	What's uuchk??  

: I have but one good thing to say about RH; X installation was VERY easy.

	Never tried it... too slow on a single speed Cd-Rom. :)

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