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To: Scott Volmar who wrote (6745)	6/12/1999 1:53:00 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

Well I usually get pissed at redhat because they change something and it breaks something else. Now sometimes there no good reason for the change. But I attribute the change to the fact that the amatuers working at redhat simply don't realize they are breaking something. The latest example that I recall is that redhat somewhere in the 5.0 plus version eliminated the soft link from /usr/X11R6 to generic /usr/X11 This simple omission in the install made it impossible for me to install my commercial multi screen Xserver. At the time I did not have time to trouble shoot. So I continued to use the older version of redhat Linux. I decided to try Suse and it was OK but I found the system organization to be clunky. I then tried slackware and I found it to be nice. But then I figured out what was wrong with the X11 softlink and then started using Redhat again. I've install 5.2 and it works well. I use multiple systems and it's a lot easier to admin one flavor of linux. I still have a system running slackware and it's ok. But Redhat has the edge in available easy to install packages. Buy the way today I downloaded ImageMagic RPM from Suse and installed it on my slackware system. It worked fine. Anyway I find the assertion's that redhat is monopolistic to be absurd. Redhat has market share because it's the easiest for the newcomer to install and use. Also redhat got organized first. Since all the packages can be had for 1.99 or so from www.cheapbytes.com, I guess redhat could give it away to undersell the competition and drive suse and caldera and whomever out of business. Yes, YES, I see it now, Redhat surfing to world domination on a tital wave of billions and billions of free redhat CDROMs. GEE I could get rich if I figure out a way to run cars on free cdrom fuel. Tom Watson tosewmee