Red Hat Linux 7.1 Deluxe

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Red Hat Linux 7.1 Deluxe

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Redhat Linux 7.1 Deluxe Edition is aimed at work-station users but includes server software and an automated server (as well as a laptop) installation routine. Important upgrades include the 2.4 kernel, Gnome 1.2, KDE 2.1.1, XFree86 4, support for "hot-pluggable" USB devices, automatic firewall setup with ipchains and better support for recordable CD-ROM devices. It also does an excellent job of hardware detection. As usual, more software is installed than you need and some items you will need--such as StarOffice 5.2--are a separate installation. Among the nine CDs are two game CDs--demos from Loki and over 300 other games on the Binge! (sic) CD. The slick Anaconda installation routine automatically installs Linux if it's all you want on the PC. You need to interact to install Linux as a second OS on a Windows PC but this, too, is easy. There are niggles. Unlike Suse 7.1 it failed to set up icons for our CD-ROM drives in Gnome or KDE despite claiming to do so. It's dispiriting for a new Linux user to have to figure out how to do something as basic as read a CD--it does Linux no favours. Otherwise it's excellent. --Steve Patient The Power Tools CD contains various utilities--none of which you need (or they'd be installed already). The Applications disc contains a variety of commercial apps and demos including Yahoo! Messenger and Acrobat Reader. The documentation is good, but for a user who also has to maintain the system rather than just use it, we'd recommend Running Linux to go with it. Gnome remains the default desktop but KDE can now be made the default, though install both and you can choose between Gnome and KDE at boot time. It's by far the best KDE setup Redhat has given us since it adopted Gnome. Even better Gnome includes KDE menus and vice versa. Read more Red Hat Linux 7.1 Deluxe