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Sorry, with me reworking my site, I had no other place to tell the world cool things that happen to me (well, for those 2 readers I have...Hi Piera!).

Anyways, I really like Gnome, and I really wanted Gnome 2.4. So I decided to install Red Hat 9.0 and upgrade to Gnome 2.4 because SuSE isn't really a Gnome distribution. Anyways, I successfully installed Gnome 2.4 with apt4rpm.

Now, SuSE's YaST is excellent. I mean, it spoils you. Red Hat simply doesn't compare. And for setting up a multi-monitor system, SaX2 is just so easy. Point and click.

Red Hat doesnt' have anythign like that. So I had to setup dual monitor support on my linux machine by editing the XF86config file by myself. Now, I have been using Linux on the desktop for a year now, so I guess it was time. I found the XInerama HOWTO, and whle one or two steps weren't exactly the same, I got through it.

And when all was said and done, it worked!!! I was able to successfully, and relatively easily, setup dual monitor support on Linux.

Even better, I was able to understand the XF86config file. It's really not all that hard once you just spend some time reading it. It actually starts to make sense.

Even better yet, I was able to get VLC installed, and now my DVD players works fine on linux. Another yay!

All in all, a very good Linux day for me. Gnome 2.4 is just really pleasant to work with. Happy computing. =)
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Post by evilMind »

I expected more than RedHat from you jason... You should use slack (of course I tell everybody that though :-D) Download Swaret http://swaret.xbone.be and package management becomes as easy as RH or mandrake even. Personally I use KDE. It does everything I want it to do. Although, I enjoy the keyboard "Media Key" setup that Gnome 2.4 has (It sure beats using xmodmap and xev).. That was great when I tried Gnome for a little while. Oh yeah, about VLC I've never tried it (or heard of it) but if you're looking to try an alternative Mplayer is another great Audio/Video player (plays DVD,mov,asf,wmv,mpg,mp3,etc files) Find it at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design6/info.html (and it even comes with.. yuck.. rpm's for RH ;) )

All in all I agree 100% with the title of your post....

LINUX POWER!
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Post by Nay »

:(

I was supposed to switch to Redhat 3 weeks ago - already. I'm just waiting for a WhatPulse Redhat version to come out. Even if I did have dual boot, I know I would be always on my Redhat compared to my Windows LOL.

-Nay
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A friend of mine has good knowledge in unix families and he said that Mandrake is good than RH...
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Post by jason »

evilMind: Yeah, Slackware was my first. =) Though, it was someone else doing the install. Anyways...

SuSE spoiled me. Really, its just a simple distro to use. YaST is wonderful, and there support for hardware is excellent.

I might try slackware again, I have heard lots of good things about it recently, and it seems they are picking things up once again.

Besides, be happy I am using Linux! I could very well go back to Windows (actually no. That couldn't happen, I have too much respect for myself to do that.)

As far as mplayer was concerned...it wasn't handling the DVD's correctly. I don't know why, but neither was gxine. vlc works though, and that is what matters. The thing I like the most about vlc is that it runs on Linux and Mac (though, I can't say I looked if mplayer did). I really do prefer applications that run on multiple OS's. Makes switching computers easier.
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Post by Cruzado_Mainfrm »

try using wine to run whatpulse, i haven;'t tryed that yet but i'll see if it works, then i'll post and say the outcome

EDIT: erm... in theory... this will not work, cuz the keys i think are handled differently in linux...
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Post by cwcollins »

If you're going to run RedHat, be ready to pay for it...

http://codewalkers.com/pasture.php

I couldn't find the information at red hat's site, but i have the email at home. They have made no commitment to keep making a free version available.
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Post by m3mn0n »

What do you mean pay? They aren't making 10.0 free?
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Post by jason »

Sami: No, that's false. Their won't be a 10.0 in a traditional sense. Rather, it's either free or paid for.

Fedora is the free version, and can be found here:

http://fedora.redhat.com

On another note, I have been considering trying Slackware w/ Dropline Gnome
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Post by m3mn0n »

Whoa, I was wondering what that Fedora thing was, never bothered to read it until now though. ;)

If anyone is interested check these out:


http://fedora.redhat.com/about
http://fedora.redhat.com/about/faq/
http://www.fedora.us/
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Post by richie256 »

Nay wrote:I'm just waiting for a WhatPulse Redhat version to come out.
Just install linux and count your keystrokes by yourself ! :lol:
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