Just took a looksie ... it's because it's from a weird port (port 200)

yeah... ool... no port 80... remember? hehe

RedHat 8.0 SUCKS!

I've got a Pentium 233mhz that I've used for 5 years as my Linux Server.
Last month I made the MISTAKE of upgrading to RedHat 8.0

Tomorrow, I'm going to roll back to 7.3 on my server box.

Here's why I say "RedHat 8.0 SUCKS!"

First thing I noticed was when I upgraded my Linux Server from RedHat 7.3
that it lost it's NIC and Soundcard. Other software quit working. I had to
format the drive and start from scratch!

First thing I noticed is RedHat removed ALL MP3 players, all DivX players, and all MPEG players!

Not to mention they removed the GUI RPM manager, and all web browsers
except Mozilla. The File Browser has NO Tree view so you can't navigate anywhere! The menu manager is Hidden!

Also, removed LINUXCONF, the only GUI way to manage your partitions and
edit your /etc/fstab file. There's a version of LinuxConf for Redhat 8,
but without an RPM manager it won't install. Besides you need to
download a separate GUI for this version!
Same for Adobe reader. You can download it but it won't install!
The screen savers don't work either (if you prefer the KDE desktop)
Is this RedHat's way of convincing us to use their stupid new Gnome Hybrid?

Also this thing runs slow as molassas in the dead of Winter!

Up to now, this Pentium 233 has been just fine for Linux.

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE LINUX, but RedHat 8 SUCKS!

I'm sure glad I never installed it on my desktop.

I've left my desktop at RedHat ver 7.3 and sure am glad I did. It plays DVD's, DivX movies and MP3 music. Evolution replaces Outlook and even syncronizes my PDA.

I can do anything with Linux that windoze can do...(except
freeze all the time.)

Take my advice: Stick with RedHat 7.3 It's their best distro yet!

Vic

First you wrote too much and to lazy reading it but I did catch RED HAT 8.0 SUCKS! Red Hat always sucked. Use Slackware

as I said in other post: get NetBSD