Red Hat Linux 7.3 Personal

by Red Hat

Product Features

• Improved usability
• Easy systems management
• Customizable firewall at install

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000067FK3
• Item model number: RHF0087US
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,818 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #84 in Software > Operating Systems > Linux & Unix
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Keeps getting better!, May 14, 2002

By 

J. Turner (Minnesota United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red Hat Linux 7.3 Personal (CD-ROM)

Previous versions of Red Hat left much to be desired, but with each successive release this distribution has gotten better. In my opinion, Red Hat 7.3 is now the best distribution available yet - easy to configure, robust, and full featured.

I installed RH 7.3 on my finicky Inspiron 3800 Laptop. Every other time I have installed Linux (or any other operating system) I had to download drivers for the sound card, for the video card, or other peripherals. Not with Red Hat Linux 7.3. It detected and configured my sound card without any intervention. My PCMCIA ethernet card was also automatically configured.

KDE 3.0 is included, and is robust. A slew of new applications are included, allowing you to FAX, scan, edit, run spreadsheets, produce presentations, and just about anything else you could think of - right "out of the box." I also was pleased to see that KDE displays fonts MUCH better than in previous releases.

The only thing lacking in this version (personal version, but included in the Professional version) is Star Office or Open Office (which will allow you to read and write Word document files).

Highly recommended.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Have a look at Mandrake for the desktop, August 19, 2002

By 

Anthony Barker (Toronto) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Red Hat Linux 7.3 Personal (CD-ROM)

I like Redhat a lot and consider it the strongest and most stable linux distribution aimed at the server market.

However for a more co-hesive interface, userfriendly experience and better MS Windows integration I would probably go with Mandrake Linux.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A bit quirky, July 1, 2002

By 

"toma2405" (Scottsdale, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Red Hat Linux 7.3 Personal (CD-ROM)

I have been sing Red hat since ver 7.0. I was really looking forward to the KDE 3.0 desktop. Unfortunately Konqueror and Kmail are both unstable in the 3.0 version. Red hat does not like to support KDE and have not put the KDE 3.0.1 upgrades in the up2date nor have they created the rpm's so people can download them. Almost every other distro supports KDE much better.