Ramblings about RedHat 7.3 XFS

[Collins]

7.3 appears to be a stable distro; no problems encountered thus far.

1) Found and fixed all the extra daemon crap I don't need - sendmail,
kudzu, lpd, etc.

2) Cups installed and running with no problems.

3) sound card and video setup properly by the installer.

3) cdrecord --scanbus works, so I should be able to burn CDs. 
IDE-SCSI stuff setup by the installer.

4) The usual woes with library placement and miscellaneous RPMs.  xfce
installed without a hitch.  For sylpheed, I had to go to the source
tarball and to tell it specifically where libpng is located (also
failed to locate SSL, even though installed.  Since I'm not using SSL,
I'll worry about that another day).  The sylpheed RPM (a Mandrake
offering) couldn't find lots of stuff; DOA after install with --nodeps

5) Confirmed as reported in an older posting:  You can indeed
subscribe to the up2date service - no problemo, no questions about
purchase.  I've retrieved all the current maintenance, but I need to
clone the system to a backup partition before trying Russian roulette.

All in all, quite a good distro.  Now that I have xfce and sylpheed 
and the binary Open Office 1.01 (BTW, the the OO installer is much
improved), it's at least as good as running gentoo.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
Redhat 7.3 system