[CLUE-Talk] Re: CLUE-Talk digest, Vol 1 #421 - 1 msg
Mike Benavides
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Sun Feb 3 11:30:14 MST 2002
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> 1. RedFlag Linux Review (Sean Reifschneider)
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> From: Sean Reifschneider <jafo-cluetalk at tummy.com>
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> Subject: [CLUE-Talk] RedFlag Linux Review
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> Greetings. I spent the weekend downloading RedFlag Linux (the one from
> China), and thought I'd give a quick review of it. This is largely related
> to the installer and boot process.
>
> RedFlag seems to be a Red Hat derrived distribution. The initial boot
> screen will look quite familiar to You Red Hat users. Once you get out of
> the text boot screen into the main GUI installer, you'll notice big changes
> though.
>
> It looks like they've completely re-worked the installer. It includes
> critical features such as angled progress bars. :-) Actually, they did a
> great job with the installer. Though it's limited to ReiserFS and ext2 for
> file-system options. One neat thing about it is that there is an
> additional option available in the installer, which is "Uninstall RedFlag
> Linux". The icon for it is a recycle bin with tux-feet sticking out of
> it...
>
> The best part of the GUI installer is that they've enhanced the package
> selection screen. In addition to selecting the main groups of packages,
> you can also "drill down" and see the individual packages in a particular
> group, de-select some of them (though I didn't see that it was properly
> dealing with de-selecting packages which required a package you removed).
> You could also select the individual packages and get information on what
> it did.
>
> Unfortunately, there were also some problems with this screen. First of
> all the text in the info screen was 80 columns, and the info screen was at
> most 40 wide -- so you had to scroll back and forth all the time. Also,
> when you selected one of the packages to see what it did, you also toggled
> the selection state of it. There didn't seem to be a way to select
> independantly of toggling (with the mouse anyway).
>
> The other thing I noticed was that the boot process (which was limited to
> LILO, BTW), was using the graphical boot progress package, which shows Tux
> marching with a big red flag, as a progress bar displays the boot progress.
>
> That's really as much as I know. The ISO for it is only around 450MB, so
> obviously there's a lot missing over, say, KRUD, which is within a megabyte
> or two of filling up 2 700MB CDs.
>
> The installer is slick though.
>
> The download took me 3 days, at between 3KB/sec and 10KB/sec. If anyone
> wants to pick up a copy, I seem to have some bandwidth that's being wasted
> at the moment. Let me know and I'll hook you up.
>
> Sean
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> Sleep is just an addiction. -- Dieter Muller
> Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <jafo at tummy.com>
> tummy.com - Linux Consulting since 1995. Qmail, KRUD, Firewalls, Python
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Sean:
Nice review, it is good to see that the China has refused to buckle to
the MS software pressure in the Far East. Their home grown software
industry can grow if they can understand how to contribute to GPL and
Linux with our help.
Mike Benavides
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