On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 20:10, Joe Giles wrote: > 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)?
There are big improvements I see in 8.0, but some things that that might bite you also. I installed it on a separate partition of my laptop on Friday and have been poking and prodding it over the weekend. Here are my impressions so far: Good: Wireless config and updated config tools -- had my wireless card with WEP up in 2 minutes. New config tools much improved. Bluecurve artwork -- Personally, I think these look very nice. Same look and feel in Gnome or KDE. Package Installer -- looks like a clone of the Ximian installer, but that is a good thing. Handles dependency checking and knows which apps are on which CDs. This is a big improvement. Bad: Everything is compiled is gcc 3.2. I guess you have to upgrade some time, but the java plug-ins won't work in mozilla and many other plug-ins that were compiled with gcc 2.9x. Binary compatability with C++ programs and libs that were compiled with gcc 2.9x is broken. All the new major distros are using 3.2 so everyone will suffer for a while. Apache 2.0 appears to be the only version on the CDs. The PHP module seems to have trouble on 2.0 for now. This is a big deal for me since I have lots of PHP apps. Gnome2 seems buggy still. Inconsistencies, panel resizes itself at random, X crashes. Not pretty. KDE seems more stable. There are still a lot of things I haven't tested yet. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Sing blue silver Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
