** Reply to message from Joe Giles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 05 Oct 2002 18:10:57 -0600 (MDT)
> This might not be the most appropriate spot for this kind of question, and > I will gladly apologize if someone doesn't like it, but I would like to > know what you all think about the new Red Hat 8.0. I am downloading the > 4th CD now and I was going to install it, but in light of e-mails this > last week, I'm not sure I want to with all the problems others are having. > I have a perfectly good working 7.3 install and I really would like to get > others opinions of it before I format and reinstall. I was thinking about > installing it on VMWare and giving it a test drive first. > > Anyway, what do you think; do you like it, or would you wait for the next > release (or any fixes)? Can't think of a better forum. I love RH8. It is stable as a rock for me. I did a full load cuz I have the hard drive space. The install took 63 minutes for the formatting of four partitions and the ~4.5G install. I would recommend against the full load - you get a lot of crap you don't need. But I would not do it unless you have a backup of your previous system. RH elected to drop some things which I still need, e.g., Netscape (my online banking does not work with Mozilla). Have been un-tarring various apps from my backups today. The first thing I did was go to freshrpms.net and download apt and apt-devel. Then I did an update and upgrade and install of all the missing pieces: xmms, mplayer, xine, after "rpm -e"ing the RH versions, of course. RH8 is noticeably skimpy with the multimedia apps. This may or may not be a concern for you. My pet peeve at this point is the lack of Gnome applets such as screen-shooter which have yet to be ported over to Gnome2. But as a whole, I have had no problems. I had reservations since my 7.3 box was solid and there is the old adage that a #.0 release is one to be avoided. The tempest in a teapot about the Bluecurve desktop theme is all hot air. The KDE and Gnome apps are all there if you want them. All the base functions such as networking, etc. work out of the box as they did in 7.3. Only exception to this is that Apache 2.0 is not fully cooked yet, e.g., it doesn't allow perl handlers in the httpd.conf file yet. Sigh..... Now, to get my scanner working..... :-))) jb -- Jack Bowling mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
