[KLUG Members] More RH8.0 impressions

[members@kalamazoolinux.org]

Now I've been using RH8 for a day, non-stop.  Discovered some
interesting things -

1. The gdm/pam installation is seriously whacked in some gross and
fundamental way.  Both login and gdm reference the system-auth stack,
but login works and gdm won't let any LDAP user login with some stupid
message like "Couldn't set acct. mgmt for adam".  Still haven't figured
that one out.  Putting a bogus entry for myself in /etc/passwd with the
same uid/gid as the DSA at least let me login.  And ssh into the box? 
No way,  just sits and spins.

2. Another annoyance was that one gdm let me in, X bounced me out with a
worthless "some hostname does not match" message.  Both forward and
reverse DNS work.  Logging into fail-safe worked to bring up an xterm, 
then just logging out and back into GNOME worked.  Possibly some
conflict with my previous settings? (Home directory is NFS mounted).

3. GNOME puked until I removed the old .gnome2 directory.  A few
settings lost, but I didn't much care.

Phhew!  Now I'm finally logged in.  That was *WAY* too hard.  And the
PAM/NSS bits still aren't working correctly.

4. What happened to RPM?  It doesn't like several of the options that
seemed to work before.  And building a spec file to a binary is
completely different.  Did this strike someone as a good idea?  Will
someone near them please whack them on the back of the head for me.

5. I miss Galeon, and this mozilla is too old to install it.  That is
disappointing.  I'm off to fight a small war with RPM....

6. The applications on the menu are allot better organized and the icons
and descriptions are VERY nice.  But alas, most of the apps I use all
day (vncviewer, ODBCConfig, DataManager, ....) don't merit such
treatment.  The ODBC applications once installed don't show up on any
menu, neither does vncviewer, and that doesn't even come with an icon.

7. Still missing some critical apps of the distro.  No GUI cvs client
(gCVS), no tnef viewer (which should be both included and associated in
evo).

8. Missing glimmer, my favorite code editor.

9. All my devices seem to work fine.  I went for a PS/2 to a USB mouse
with no hickups.  Wheel on mouse worked straight up.  Plugged in one of
my external SCSI disk packs.  That worked fine. CD's mount and ejected
from the desktop without any problems.  I haven't gotten a chance to
play with sound,  but I saw it load cmpci, so I assume that works.

Despite the UI niggles above, which are possibly just taste issues, I'm
pretty happy.  BUT, with the one exception of the PAM/NSS issue, which
just pisses me off.  I haven't had issues like this with logging in
since the 7.0 beta.