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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.
Good point about desktop resolution. 2048 x 1536 should be a design goal. I have 22 inches of glass luv and the hot card to push it but I feel like I'm playing with an old 14 inch when I am in X. See what I mean?
Monitors supporting 2048 x 1536 are not uncommon since their prices have come down to consumer land (sub $400). The big three cardmakers support that resolution.
I shouldn't have to keep a post it on the monitor to remind me which ethernet card is where. eth0, eth1, eth2 is not infomative. If you can name something so that it's name is descriptive, you can work with it easier. Linux naming convention is crap, inherited from unix. "vi" is a text editor. Perhaps it could have been called -duh- "edit"... no, I don't need the history lesson, it's just an example.
More examples, objectively, which ones can you tell what they do by their names?: emacs, elvis, fte, kedit, latex, word, word perfect, notepad
"Konqueror"... what is that? Oh, navigate, explore, conquer... Inside joke with a cute k on the front to identify it with KDE.. But nothing in the name to tell a new user that it is the a browser. "rm" delete, del, trash, erase, oh!, "remove" got it!
Nice to see the begining of good fonts and a move toward unified desktops though.
If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.
This ftp site has been compromised. If you attempt to log on, the server will record your ip and try to crack into your system by scanning for weak ports! MY system was probably cracked since its sending all sorts of data to 213.168.33.38 after doing a whois I found out it is the standard IP of this ftp server! My guess is that it logs whoever comes in and then try's to crack the ports from the recorded IP address. Thank god I have a firewall. People reading this just beware and check your firewall logs if you used this ftp site and make sure you block out the ip adress I mentioned above. I already emailed the admin on this server about the compromise. Has anyone else who tried to download from this mirror have similiar problems?
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