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Red Hat 8.0 Released
I_am_Rambi writes "RedHat has released their latest OS, 8.0. Here is Red Hat's ftp site for download and some mirrors. If you need help there's a Howto." Jeet81 adds: "Red Hat is out with a new release, Red Hat 8.0. Looks like Red Hat is moving towards the windows XP style using its new Bluecurve graphical interface (the new default email client 'Ximian Evolution' looks a lot like MS Outlook)." So what's the verdict on Null or Bluecurve or whatever it's called? Good idea, bad idea?
The mirrors have been either jammed or not updated since Monday. Now Slashdot posts links on the frontpage. I'll never be able to get the ISOs.
"So what's the verdict on Null or Bluecurve or whatever it's called? Good idea, bad idea? "
Yes... one of those 2. Or maybe something in between.
Introducing Red Hat Linux 8.0, a user-friendly Linux operating system.
OK but does it pass the Grandma test? I can just hear myself now, "OK Grandma, type vee-eye "frontslash" etc/hosts... no wait, frontslash... no, not the one above the RETURN key... wait, yours is called the ENTER key?" Still, the "dumbing down" of the interface all in all is a great step in the right direction to capturing new mindshare.
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That's right... All 3 of 'em do !
News at 10: Two of the billions of people on the planet Earth had very similar ideas.
Did you just call your own theme a turd?
I just upgraded to Mandrake 9.0. Yes you heard me : 9.0. I don't understand why so many of you want to go for an old 8.0 version!
I'll do it for cheesy poofs.
Aww, c'mon now! Five disks isn't that bad. That's only a little over 7 meg. I remember when a full Slack distro was over 30 disks...
What? What's that you say? Five what ?
Ahh - My eye!
The doctor said I'm not supposed to get Slashdot in it!
You all remember that you should never download .0 RedHat releases, right?
I'm not sure. Maybe it's because I am able to download at 95% of my max speed immediately from an FTP site, instead of waiting for three hours to download at 10%.
Okay, back on topic. Red Hat should be able to bundle any themes that they'd like along with their distribution. This particular interface does not seem as daunting to Windows users as the default Gnome team, and that will make them more comfortable. When I first ran KDE (which was not long ago, I admit), I immediately switched to the Redmond theme, because it looked much more familiar. That's just what this is about.
Lalala
Mandrake, by two days and a version number.
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But you can't tell young people that today. They are too spoiled. Why I remember hacking a copy of OS 390 onto my TRS-80 Model 1 using a 4 baud modem running Morse Code emulation. I used the RPG compiler to build a damn refrigerator. You try and do that with a sissified Make linker today and you'll be drinking warm milk that's for sure.
Nurse, I need a thumper.
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I feel reassured. Thank you.
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Anyone have a HOWTO link or a quick tip to get all my fonts to be AA under RedHat 8? Mozilla still looks like hammered dogshit.
Thanks!
"If there's hope, it lies in the proles..."
It an attempt to look even more like Windows, the next RedHat release will incorporate the new "Bluescreen" theme...
I it kind of makes me mad that they went though the trouble of addressing the "interface issue" and ended up using ugly icons for everthing, Why did they not contact somebody from here
That being said, I have one complaint. FIVE fscking-disks?! Hello!?!? Some people still are too cheap to buy stuff! Hell Slack is just recently toying with the idea for possibly going to 2, and even they postponed it for another release. Sheesh!
Actually, the CDROM's run an ISO9660 filesystem, and both the filesystem and media are read-only. fsck will do you no good, so save it for your hard drive...
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