Red Hat Linux 7.1

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Summary: Great product!!
Review: I LOVE Red Hat linux. It is a GREAT Windows alternitive. It is MUCH better than Windows. I tried other linux distros too such as Linux Mandrake, Debian GNU/Linux, SuSE (by far the worst) but Red Hat Linux is the most bug free, flexible, user friendly, operating system out there.

HOWEVER: If you have broudband you may want to download it...Otherwise...this boxed set is nice :)

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Summary: Not the best out there
Review: I've been running SuSE 7.1 for the past couple of months and it's been great!! So I decided to give RH 7.1 a go (since it's supposed to be one of the best/most used distributions out there). I was very dissapointed. To start Gnome's file manager kept respawning itself, programs run under certain logins and cause segmentation faults under others (these include programs that come standard with the distribution), and since I'm a Java developer what really got me was that you need to go through a whole work-around just to get Java to work!!

I'm sticking to SuSE and would advise everybody to do so. This release just doesn't cut it - don't buy it!

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Summary: I Love This New Operating System!!
Review: I've never experienced anything like it. This Red Hat Linux stuff is radically better than anything I've been able to create. Why, my computer hasn't crashed in months! I've forgotten what the color blue looks like. My favorite: the one-click cut and paste. They should patent that stuff.

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Summary: Not much more than the downloads...
Review: If you have a good broadband connection, download the ISO's and burn your own. That's pretty much all this is. The documentation is minimal at best with quite a bit of advertising, easily replaced by third party books you would be wiser to spend your money on than this.

So why did I buy it? Because I couldn't get my downloads to work right until after I'd already given up and ordered it. Murphy's law of downloads :-D...

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Summary: Not much more than the downloads...
Review: If you have a good broadband connection, download the ISO's and burn your own. That's pretty much all this is. The documentation is minimal at best with quite a bit of advertising, easily replaced by third party books you would be wiser to spend your money on than this.

So why did I buy it? Because I couldn't get my downloads to work right until after I'd already given up and ordered it. Murphy's law of downloads :-D...

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Summary: Better 'n Windows
Review: Linux has always been a great alternative to Microsft Windows and 7.1 is no exception. I'm absolutely sick of seeing Microsoft everywhere when there are so many better OS's out there. Red Hat Linux 7.1 is just as easy to use and so much more fun to tinker and play with, plus it doesn't crash or give you any of the other problems Windows does, not to mention several differant desktop environments which all work great. It's capable of so much more and pretty much all the software one would need for it is free. One small complaint is that it doesn't support multimedia stuff as well as Windows can. However, unless you're doing some hard-core stuff you probably won't really notice.

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Summary: Better 'n Windows
Review: Linux has always been a great alternative to Microsft Windows and 7.1 is no exception. I'm absolutely sick of seeing Microsoft everywhere when there are so many better OS's out there. Red Hat Linux 7.1 is just as easy to use and so much more fun to tinker and play with, plus it doesn't crash or give you any of the other problems Windows does, not to mention several differant desktop environments which all work great. It's capable of so much more and pretty much all the software one would need for it is free. One small complaint is that it doesn't support multimedia stuff as well as Windows can. However, unless you're doing some hard-core stuff you probably won't really notice.

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Summary: best linux distro
Review: Linux is too hard for the casual user. Linux users don't have access to good word processing or good games. Linux doesn't have an understandable desktop.

I really got tired of hearing that. So I went out and bought Red Hat 7.1 and it's the best OS on the market, rivalling even the mighty BeOS for ease of use. Simply choose which way you want to use it, and the rest is automatic. We are starting to see some other games coming over to the Linux distros, with Loki leading the way. If all you need is a simple desktop, Red Hat will provide. If you want just an internet connection, the distro provides the amazing Konqueror, mozilla, and netscape..plus about 6 other tools.

If you want to learn more about computers, like I do, Red Hat or Mandrake is the place to begin. If you are interested in any aspect of development or of beginning to configure your own system, Red Hat is your choice. It's chock full of tools of every sort, and as with all Linux distros, you can always bring in more.

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Summary: Great for a power user, not a regular user
Review: The choice of an OS is a very religeous subject, So dont think too much about the rating, it's either 1 or 5 depending on where you stand. If you are a developer, or a power user, very into messing with every little part of your computer. THIS IS YOUR OS! However, if you are not into those things, and you have problems with computers, and want something relatively simple with a small learning curve, use Windows, BeOS, or MacOS. Linux is still not userfriendly (took me, someone good with computers, 3 hours to get sound working, another Linux expert I know took an hour on his to get sound working). However, due to the power and low overhead you will find this a good operating system if you are familiar with any form of *nix or want a power OS. This will be what my Linux box runs.

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Summary: Big improvment over RedHat 6.0
Review: The computer I have is a HP that has a win modem and a few other custom things. This version of Red Hat actually reconized it and my monitor. The install is a lot easier and seems to be as stable as an OS can get. With the K Desktop Environment running it looks a lot like windows without the flakeyness of icons being dammaged and other weird things that Windows does.

Debian is said to be the most secure version of Linux so if you want to run a full-time server you might try that or a version of BSD. P.S. If you have never played xBill you have got to try this little game.