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Technology Stocks : Red Hat Software Inc. (Nasdq-RHAT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (81)	6/21/1999 9:56:00 AM
From: Matthew Wecksell	Respond to of 1794

A year ago I installed Red Hat 5.2 on my PC and had problems with XFree86. On this board, I don't care if MetroX or AcceleratedX are good, because they aren't owned or distributed by the company we're all considering investing in, and because the "product" sold by Red Hat, as is, has some problems with X Windows. People who buy Red Hat at CompUSA get a box and they expect the stuff in the box to be all they need to have a full on functional Linux set up. Here's hoping Red Hat takes some of their new $90,000,000 (love them zeroes) and pays someone to work in XFree86 or redo it the right way. Heck, they might even be able to just purchase another X Server. What would happen if Red Hat owned AcceleratedX and didn't GPL it? The Red Hat Linux product would be better, and it'd give Red Hat are real difference between it's Linux, the competiton's Linux, and the GPL distrubition of Red Hat that Cheap Byte's sells for $1.99. I could see Dell paying Red Hat if they could use a commercial X Server instead of XFree86. ---matt (For the non-geeks: Linux looks like windows by putting a bunch on things on top of one another. You get a Window Manager that decides how everything looks, running on top of an X-Server that provides GUI functionality, running on top of the Linux Kernel. XFree86 is the X-Server that comes with most Linuxen, mostly because it's free.

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (81)	6/21/1999 10:55:00 AM
From: B Hamilton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1794

Thomas, Matthew makes the point. I bought the $79.95 RHAT6.0 for purposes of evaluating their product. The video card I have appears to be in the list of cards the installation software presented me with, (Trident 9750 AGP). I have a Trident 9750 PCI/AGP. Maybe the one referenced on the install software is not PCI. Anyway, what I found was anything but a "no-brainer" install. As a matter of fact I am going to call them up this morning because 6.0 still will not boot from the HD. If I have to buy an other video card or monitor or anything else for that matter then I'd rather stay with Win98. But that is beside the point. Linux is to be marketed to the server area, not the desktop user. If the RHAT can make inroads in that application, (I think they can), then RHAT will be a good investment. Brien Hamilton