[NTLUG:Discuss] Redhat9 - hostid doesn't work

[Jack Snodgrass]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 09:01:16 -0600, Kyle Davenport wrote:

> 
> Is it time to dis' RH9?
> 
> 
> The biggest problem I have with RH9 is the NPTL change.  Perhaps for some
> server app's there will be a performance improvement, but I always roll my
> own kernels, starting with Linus', and the whole system suffers expecting
> NPTL in the kernel.  Getting Nvidia's drivers to work was painful.  My
> measure of a good distribution is how easily it can be modified - and
> RedHat's getting harder and harder.  At work, where I don't have a lot of
> time to mess with my machine:


just my $0.02.... I got a new nVidia card over the weekend. I installed 
the card in my RH9 box and ran the install of the nVidia binary drivers
( NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run ) and was up and running in a flash. 
I don't really like running binary drivers... or their splash scree, but
the drivers loaded fine. 

> rpm -qa --queryformat '%{vendor}\n' | grep -v "Red Hat" gives 170 out of
> 1020 packages I had to add, and that doesn't even include the non-rpm
> stuff!

I never upgrade.... I always re-install. Out with the old, in with the
new... so to speak. I customize my system so much that there is no way
an upgrade can take place. 

jack