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| From: Red Hat Software
Buy New: $85.00
New (1) Used (6) from $83.88
Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 10493
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Linux
Color: Red Hat Linux 7.1
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Linux
Model: RH31000US
UPC: 638347501838
EAN: 0638347501838
ASIN: B00005EBF2
Release Date: April 26, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 6-10 of 20
 The best verison yet May 4, 2001
Jason Annas (USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is the best verison of RedHat Linux out there. It's very easy and straightforward to use you have to use fdisk if you got the infamous over 1024 cylinder limit. But the good news is that This verison of RedHat has a special verison of LILO [linux boot loader] that works with Windoze ME so you can use both. It's graphical and all around easy. This verison has the new kernal 2.4 and the new KDE 2.0 also it has this new file navigator called nautilous by Eazeal and is really stright forward. The only thing is is that it's only in the GNOME desktop [like Mac OS][one of the 2 GUI graphical user interfaces that linux has] Plus if you want to listen to sound in GNOME you have to login as root and turn the sound on and restart. The other thing is win your installing linux using fdisk when you have to name your windows partitons the monut just type /mnt/win It's stright forward. I havnt gotten to have previous good linux experiences because I have a new computer and linux wouldn't reconize my cable modem or sound card but this one Does therefore it's the only one I use. What are you waiting for BUy it.
Enough Windows already... June 6, 2001
Brandon Bistor (Cincinnati, Ohio United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
You can download any version of Red Hat for free. But, this is nice. If you're tired of seeing Microsoft everywhere, this is for you. I've only had this version for about a week, but I don't see any problems with it. The X-Windows style GUI is easy to use, and not for "techies". I got tired of hearing everyone talk about getting their MCSE, and decided to give Linux a try and I don't plan on going back. This is just as easy as windows(in some parts a lot easier) and there is online support, and Linux is very reliable. Give this a try, you'll like it.
New features and more usability April 28, 2001
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I just got Red Hat's newest version in the mail the other day. The Install was better than previous versions, it found my monitor and video card with no trouble at all. I had some problems partitioning, however, it gave me an error about the /boot partition being > 1024 cylinders. I quickly found out that this was happening because my Windows 98 partitions were taking up all of the cylinders to and a little above the 1024th. I rearranged my partitions, and created a linux /boot partition completely under the 1024th cylinder and everything worked fine. Other than that problem, everything was smooth. Linux configured my soundcard on bootup, so that was cool too... Anyway there is a lot of cool new features in this version, like "Konqueror(KDE web browser/file manager)" and the new version of KDE is a lot more customize-able than the previous one. There's not a lot I don't like about RH 7.1, overall I think it's a big improvement over my old (RH6.2) Installation.
Excellent OS for savvy users June 7, 2001
Bob Nemeth (Holt, MI USA)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is an EXCELLENT OS. Very easy to install, especially if you have a relatively new computer. However, the fact that its not quite as easy to configure or trouble-shoot as Windows makes Linux (not just Red Hat) a second choice for basic home users.
My OS of choice now May 30, 2001
john christian (fremont, CA United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Yes, this release is definately a significant leap from 6.2, but still I wouldn't call it perfect (though, in contrast, I'd give win32 2 stars and MacOS 9.1 3.5). All of the mid/low level GNU utilities work just fine, infact better than their Solaris 8 counterparts (in my humble opinion). It's the UI level stuff that I still run into trouble with, although it's much better than 6.2, where X would freeze the whole system occasionally and wouldn't even let me open up another virtual console to kill the defunct processes. Utilities like Glade have croaked with the occasional segmentation fault, and X will still sometimes freeze on me (maybe It's something I could be doing wrong?), but I'm usually able to get out of it without rebooting. I'm also having trouble getting my USB zip250 drive working (this isn't a major gripe for me, since other, commercial OSes have given me similar problems here). But in spite of all that, I had no trouble getting sound to work, and I was able to get Mesa to build on my machine, and in no time I was writing little GLUT programs to try it out. I'd like to point out that I tried the deluxe edition this time around, and found that It included a cd of non-free 'Enterprise Workstation Software' (or something) which I found to be unnecessary. Given the add-ons included with the deluxe addition, I think I could have gotten by with the standard. Oh, and really the only reason that I got this distribution is that my current linux machine isn't connected to the internet currently, if it were, there'd really be no reason to pay for an upgrade, It's all avalible online, and relatively easy to install.
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