Comments on: Red Hat Rant http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/12/28/red-hat-rant/ Interesting bits of information and editorial, evolving online since 1995. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hatred http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/12/28/red-hat-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-20917 Hatred Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:51:43 +0000 http://dannyman.toldme.com/?p=1055#comment-20917 You should have called the Red Hat tech support, you've got a clear and reasonable complaint. Others have had to learn the hard way. You need to know the insides of the OS. Regardless the OS. I had to edit the latest Fedora Core 5 (Red Hat open source developement release) to boot to command line just to diagnose problems with the non-open source X driver that ATI provides. Problem was, it doesn't work with the latest Xfree. I've yet to come across an Xorg or Xfree windowing system it works with. So much for linux for me. I migrated to Fedora just to get that fucking damn video driver to work, but despite their unsupported claims it works with Red Hat (i.e. Fedora), no luck. I need fast 3D editing, and I'd like nothing better than linux-core based operating system. Only trouble has been to get one to work and fully support my hardware. I'd still opt for the Enterprise license, if you really need a stable operating system. Calling them should get things sorted out. That's what you pay for. You don't pay for the software (well, some of it, but the usefulness of some of it may be in question), but tech support is the most of what you pay for when you buy a Linux-based OS-distro. You should have called the Red Hat tech support, you’ve got a clear and reasonable complaint. Others have had to learn the hard way. You need to know the insides of the OS. Regardless the OS. I had to edit the latest Fedora Core 5 (Red Hat open source developement release) to boot to command line just to diagnose problems with the non-open source X driver that ATI provides. Problem was, it doesn’t work with the latest Xfree. I’ve yet to come across an Xorg or Xfree windowing system it works with. So much for linux for me. I migrated to Fedora just to get that fucking damn video driver to work, but despite their unsupported claims it works with Red Hat (i.e. Fedora), no luck. I need fast 3D editing, and I’d like nothing better than linux-core based operating system. Only trouble has been to get one to work and fully support my hardware.

I’d still opt for the Enterprise license, if you really need a stable operating system. Calling them should get things sorted out. That’s what you pay for. You don’t pay for the software (well, some of it, but the usefulness of some of it may be in question), but tech support is the most of what you pay for when you buy a Linux-based OS-distro.

]]> By: Brian Moyles http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/12/28/red-hat-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-12139 Brian Moyles Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:31:26 +0000 http://dannyman.toldme.com/?p=1055#comment-12139 Cool cats use Kickstart to install RedHat machines :) Cool cats use Kickstart to install RedHat machines :)

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