[CLUE-Tech] Terminal Crash Madness!

[Collins Richey]

On 07 Mar 2003 19:58:49 -0700
Ed Hill <ed at eh3.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 19:19, Collins Richey wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 17:57:13 -0700
> > "Jed S. Baer" <thag at frii.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On 07 Mar 2003 17:35:50 -0700
> > > Chris Terry <tuba_man at attbi.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Sorry, but I've got an addition (since it just happened again).  About
> > > > once every half an hour my screen blinks like it's changing video modes,
> > > > and then comes back normal.  Anyone else ever experience this?
> > > 
> > > Yep, ever since I upgraded to RH8.0. I think there must be something funky
> > > in XFree, because I'm also experiencing some strangness with keyboard and
> > > mouse event handling, such as holding the shift key while executing
> > > multiple arrow or mouse movements.
> > 
> > I haven't used it personally, but I've never heard any good reports about RH 8.0 - lots of flakiness out there.
> 
> 
> Hi Collins,
> 
> Heres a data point for you: I'm running KRUD 8.0 (which is essentially
> identical to RH 8.0) and am quite pleased with it.  Its loaded on my
> laptop (ThinkPad A22p) and on a few servers and equipment controllers in
> our lab.  Its been both solid as a server and a better development
> platform (mostly for C/C++/PERL/shell/FORTRAN/MatLAB/LabVIEW development
> and use for scientific computing) than the Red Hat 7.x series (largely
> due to the improved GCC 3.2 included).
> 

Glad to hear that it works for you 


> ps - I don't like to upgrade systems.  I prefer to backup all data 
>      and custom configurations (for my purposes, thats the entire 
>      contents of /etc and /home), do a fresh install, and then 
>      re-load the /home directory and make the tweaks to the config 
>      files in /etc.  While this does take a bit longer, it also 
>      does a *great* job of removing cruft and, in my experience, 
>      makes for a more stable whole.  I'm always a bit suspicious 
>      of complaints that people have when they upgrade from one 
>      major RH series to another (eg. 7.x -=> 8.x) due to the build- 
>      up of outdated configs, etc.
> 

We're in basic agreement here.  That's what spare partitions were made for.

--
Collins