Redhat 9

[Postaldave]

anyone using it?

postal

[prat]

Yeah, upgraded from 8.0 last weekend. Works allright - 'bought the same as 8, in point of fact. Not real sure what was supposed to be different - I don't use most of the features backported from the 2.5 kernel, and the native posix thread library (NPTL) support was added to 8.0 in one of the updates to the glibc packages. Of course, in 9, native posix threads are intrinsically enabled in the kernel, which is somewhat different. Haven't noticed any real glaring changes in performance, though.

[robbie]

Is there any benchmarking software for Linux? I'd love to see a compairision.
Rob

[Postaldave]

dunno about benchmarking.... but for the noob i am i just got wine working with redhat 9... what a pain is the a$$ !!!! seems it really isnt meant to work with 9 but if anyone needs help just ask

i got my cs running on it and im pulling like 59 fps where as i normally get like 80

so its alright

not bad for a fake windows lol (reffering to wine)

but its nice to be able to do everything in linux and not have to reboot to play

postal

[prat]

Yeah CS works, interesting note though: the ALSA drivers straight from www.alsa-project.org will compile, but not insert, because RedHat did some half-ass backport of the 2.5 kernel workqueue subsystem. They actually only backported the headers, not the actual code, so a few symbols are missing. I've had to revert to the old OSS/Free drivers for the time being.

[funnyperson1]

Yeah, I tried it. Not all the different from RH8, but it seems to run a bit faster. Also came with 3D drivers for my 8500 so I could play games from the get go. UT and QuakeIII run fine. I couldnt get wine to install because of glibc2.3 incompatibilities.

[prat]

Try WineX - www.transgaming.com It works pretty well, even has glibc 2.3 support. I run counter strike, starcraft, etc. w/it. And BTW if you use ALSA, check for RPMs from freshrpms.net, they install and work nicely.

[cloasters]

Am I the only one that's presented with a font error that prevents Mandrake from getting into GUI? This error appears to be easily fixable, but the fix doesn't "take."

Mandrake 5.3 was fine, but releases 6 and 7.1 or 7.2 presented the same problem. I'm far from a Linux expert, yet I dislike Mandrake and am not in a sweat to try it again.

[prat]

Just wanted to confirm:

RedHat 9 + WineX 3.0 runs Warcraft III just fine... graphics, sound, Battlenet, autopatcher, etc. all run fine, right off the autorun on the CD. Have yet to find a single problem with it. Pretty sweet graphics, too.

Also as a note, Neverwinter Nights released a full port of their client for Linux, (for those of you who've been using Wine) instructions and download links available at:
http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html

Note though: my RedHat box currently won't return Folding@Home packets, so be warned! (Pandegroup makes it sound like it's their fault in some of their posts, though, so who knows?)