Redhat 8

[Terence Kearns]

OK you convinced me ;-)

I'll download it and give it a go.





PS. can anyone tell me how to make mozilla use plain text? I went to 
preferences and set
preferences>mail&news>send-format = 'convert message to plain text'
Not only doesn't this seem to work, but there doesn't seem to be an 
option under the format menu in the compose screen which lets you drop 
the formatting.
grrrrr!
I guess it's a but and I'll have to upgrade from 1.1 or go back and use 
a more stable version :-/

Steven Farlie wrote:

>On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 11:11, Terence Kearns wrote:
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>>I've just been to their website and I've had a quick look at the
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>>set and viewed their flash presentation/preview (which is worth
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>checking 
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>>out) and it just looks like another basic increment in the RH
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>evolution. 
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>>The feature list of what's new is remarkable unremarkable. It looks
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>like 
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>>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
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>done, 
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>>and that's continuing to open up the Linux platform (a bit more) to
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>the 
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>>masses.
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>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.
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>>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
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>>standards based). If it isn't, then it's a step in a very bad
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>direction. 
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>So far as I can see bluecurve is just a set of themes. There are
>bluecurve themes for GTK, QT, xmms, gdm, nautilus, etc. All themed
>applications use the bluecurve theme by default, so the UI has a nice
>and consistent look and feel. But you can change the theme easily (go to
>Preferences->Theme for the GTK one). The menus are now using generic
>names instead of program names (with some exceptions). For example in
>Sound & Video we have "Audio Player", "CD Player", "Sound Recorder" and
>"Volume Control" instead of XMMS, gnome-cd, gnome-sound-recorder and
>gnome-volume-control. I don't know what happens to the menus under KDE,
>I haven't installed that yet.
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>>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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>And I have a ten year old mac running in front of me right now. The look
>is completely different. Also note that System 7 fits in 1800K of RAM,
>and Redhat 8 should not be used without at least 64M. I would say it is
>closer to Windows XP than System 7.
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