Redhat 8

[Simon Haddon]

I guess my real critism is that they are supplying a cut down version of
KDE and I happen to like KDE. 


On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 11:11, Terence Kearns wrote:
> 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.
> 
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> Simon Haddon wrote:
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> >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 
> >Re: Redhat 8:
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> >>Cheers,
> >>Paul.
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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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> >>Paul Bryan
> >>E-Mail: pa_bryan at yahoo.co.uk
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