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Red Hat 8.0 Reviewed
Jon writes "Eugenia from OSNews is giving Red Hat 8.0 a run for its money. She posted a very detailed and balanced review for the new version of Red Hat, which aims to be a "business desktop". Very interesting article and discussion over at OSNews." Several people also sent in the stories from InternetNews as well as LinuxPlanet.
You can tell redhat sucks cuase it's easy to install.
That's why i use gentoo.
It's so eleet it doens't even have an installer!
you just copy the stuff over by hand!
that just proves you have to be eleet to use it!
my mom got mad when i installed it on our dell in the family room but it's just cuase she's not leet!
you posers in the data centers running redhat on the huge server farms are pussies compared to my leet mp3 server!
uh my mom needs to get a recipe off marthastweart.com, gotta go!
keep it leet!
w3rd em up!
> Eugenia from OSNews is giving Red Hat 8.0 a run for its money.
Wow, Eugenia sounds like a cool new distribution!
If you're really a Physics Genius, why don't you tell us the total displacement of that spork you've got shoved up your ass?
Buzz -> Rex -> Bo -> Hamm -> Slink -> Potato -> Woody -> Sarge -> Eugenia
Btw, it's "grammar".
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Come on people, try and have a little freakin perspective here. "Life a living hell for new users"? Yeah, sure. Somehow I don't think this Red Hat build would've made it out of Quality Assurance if this were the case. I can picture it now:
Project Lead: So, what do our testers in QA think of Red Hat 8.0?
QA Manager: Oh, it's great! They love the ease of installation, the sexy new themes, the way it's easy to find the program they are looking for, whether it be a web browser or a word processor.
Project Lead: Any complaints?
QA Manager: Well, ordinarily I wouldn't bring this up, but since you asked, 99 out of 100 testers say the minor alterations to KDE, such as making the slipshod KOffice suite harder to launch so they can marvel over what a terrible job of opening Word documents it does, and changing a couple About boxes they have never opened, have made their life a living hell. Never mind that this is just a day job, no sir -- it's hell for them 24/7 and no getting past that. Most say they can no longer sleep at night, as their dreams are haunted by emaciated KDE developers crying out in anguish. One claimed his dog bolted from his house, never to be seen again, after Mozilla came up instead of Konqueror. Another got into a terrible accident because he was so preoccupied with guilt over his part in butchering KDE.
Project Lead: Oh that's terrible! We must not release this distro into the world! Quick, let's start over. I hear Slackware and Gentoo are doing great things on the ease of use front.
QA Manager: Yes sir! Our focus groups have reported that secretaries and housewives everywhere wish their computing experience included more compiling software for a 0.00001% increase in speed and less out-of-the-box functionality. Not that we could really go so far as to call Red Hat 8.0 "functional" with so many life-is-a-living-hell bugs plaguing it.
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I can give my Mom a copy of XP, and she can install it and run it.
That's BullShit (TM) and you know it. Yea, she might get it to boot, but she can forget about having a network connection and more than 256 colors.
--fatboy