Redhat 8

[Terence Kearns]

That's a little vague don't you think? you want to let us in on what the 
criticisms are :-)
It may be a good idea to touch it first so that you can make an informed 
judement (in a nice test environemnt ;-)

RH have a reputation for releasing sofware before it is stable. Perhaps 
we need to wait for the .3 release again ;-)

I've just been to their website and I've had a quick look at the feature 
set and viewed their flash presentation/preview (which is worth checking 
out) and it just looks like another basic increment in the RH evolution. 
The feature list of what's new is remarkable unremarkable. It looks like 
they came up with a new desktop theme and made it a complete distro 
version upgrade. I suppose they're just doing what they've always done, 
and that's continuing to open up the Linux platform (a bit more) to the 
masses.

I just hope that their Bluecurve GUI isn't some sort of proprietary 
thing. For instance, ppl should be able to install it on any other 
distro (should they care to) with no strings attached (ie, it should be 
standards based). If it isn't, then it's a step in a very bad direction. 
As far as personal taste goes with Bluecurve, it looks like they are 
evolving towards the Mac about 10 years ago. Well maybe that's a bit 
unfair but that's just my opinion.



Simon Haddon wrote:

>From what I've read so far I don't think I would like to touch RH 8.  I 
>hope that the reports are wrong as I feel that RH has been good for Linux 
>and I normally like their distributions (after I recompile my own kernel)
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>On 9/10/02, 5:57:29 PM, Paul Bryan <pa_bryan at yahoo.co.uk> wrote regarding 
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>>On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 17:35, Chris Wallis wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 08 Oct 2002 14:02:13 +1000, Mason Batley wrote:
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>>>>G'day
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>>>>I'm trying to track down a copy of redhat 8 to do a CD 4 CD
>>>>swap. Can someone please let me know if they can burn a copy
>>>>and i'll drop the cd's round to where ever.
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>>>>Cheers
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>>>>Mason Batley
>>>>mason=TFdDwCk755Q at public.gmane.org31.com.au
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>>>Yeah i would like a copy too! Same deal goes with me as in will provide
>>>good blank media for a copy of RH8.
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>>>Cheers
>>>Chris Wallis
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