How I hate Red Hat Linux 9.0
Mar. 25th, 2004 10:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gizaLet me count the ways I'm irritated at Red Hat Linux 9.0...
- No MP3 support. If you try to load an MP3 from XMMS, you get an error about how there are patent issues or whatever over MP3 technology, so MP3 support is no longer included with RedHat. Brilliant move, guys. You just alienated the desktop market.
- Apache is not included. An RPM of Apache would have been nice, but nooooo, you decided to have that only in your "enterprise software". You just alienated the server market.
- Dog slow. X Windows, or the window manager, Metacity, are DOG slow. My P3-450 with 320 Megs of RAM frequently has a load near 1.00. There are really stupid features, like the "let's update the window contents while resizing it" that I don't care for, and I can NOT turn them off! This is just plain retarded. Maybe I can install Sawfish instead...
I've heard good things about Gentoo and SuSE. I think I'll be giving them a try in the near future. Red Hat can bite me.
- No MP3 support. If you try to load an MP3 from XMMS, you get an error about how there are patent issues or whatever over MP3 technology, so MP3 support is no longer included with RedHat. Brilliant move, guys. You just alienated the desktop market.
- Apache is not included. An RPM of Apache would have been nice, but nooooo, you decided to have that only in your "enterprise software". You just alienated the server market.
- Dog slow. X Windows, or the window manager, Metacity, are DOG slow. My P3-450 with 320 Megs of RAM frequently has a load near 1.00. There are really stupid features, like the "let's update the window contents while resizing it" that I don't care for, and I can NOT turn them off! This is just plain retarded. Maybe I can install Sawfish instead...
I've heard good things about Gentoo and SuSE. I think I'll be giving them a try in the near future. Red Hat can bite me.
