electro - 5:37 am on Jan 20, 2002 (gmt 0)

err, I think I am one of those joe's :-)

I just got myself Red Hat this New Year, set it up as an alternitive OS on my computers. It installs fine (ok, I had to mess around with partitions on one computer), but it still seems a pain to get onto the internet. Why do I have to open a dialer, type in my root password, click ok, THEN open a browser? And when the most advanced browser on board is Netscape 4.7 and the fonts look horrible, I start loosing interest. Ok, so I am still interested in what it can do as a server (which was the reason I got it), but as a desktop it isn't quite doing it for me at the moment. Maybe AOL would make it better for desktop, but I don't like or trust AOL with anything. They may make it better for desktops, but then they will probably mess up the server market.

But what do I know, I'm just a Linux newbie!