Redhat 8

[Rob Weir]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 01:29:41PM +1000, Steven Farlie wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 11:11, Terence Kearns wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Well I just moved from 7.3 to 8.0 and I think there is enough there to
> make it 8.0 instead of 7.4. The packages have changed a lot, GNOME went
> from 1.4 to 2, Mozilla is 1.0.1 and OpenOffice is now included. The
> fonts are very pretty right out of the box too.

I'm not even a RedHat user, but switching to GCC 3.2 is a shift worthy
of a major-version-number bump, I would say.  Look at the debian-devel
list to see how much of a big deal it is.

-rob
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