Em Ter, 2003-12-02 às 16:07, Smith, Herb escreveu: > 1) I assume from the fray that RH 9 will be the last version available > in that form from Red Hat itself....correct? Well, for free yes. There's red hat workstation, shipped in boxes, sold for +- us$ 100. > 2) I currently have a RH 8 / Windows NT dual boot system. I LOVE RH > 8....it was a snap to install and I have had no issues with its > performance on my Dell PC. I was about to buy RH 9 due to the supposed > improvements is working with Java applications and wondered if Fedora > was a better course of action? Probably. Fedora is a direct evolution from rh9. > 3) I have several 3rd party software packages...some free (nedit), some > not free (QCAD..2D CAD program). Are there any thoughts as to whether > these should still run under Fedora, or would I have to wait for > specific Fedora-compiled binaries of these applications? Almost as general rule, programs which run on rh9 run on fedora. Not all hardware does this, though. > 4) I downloaded the 3 iso images and got them onto CD's (after some > pain...I had to put them on CD-RW disks using Roxio...they wouldn't go > onto just CD-R disks). So if I boot from the CD will the installation > do an "update" over RH 8? I noticed that there was a Gnome > issue....anything else? Are there any issues booting from a RW-type CD? Didn't you read the ximian gnome issue? No, it's ok boot from rw. I did this, in fact. > 5) Am I getting onto thin ice here?? Given that my RH 8 system went on > with such ease, can I expect Fedora to do the same? List you hardware... maybe we can say something. -- []s Alexandre Ganso 500 FOUR vermelha - Diretor Steel Goose Moto Group
