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Red Hat 8.0 Released

Posted by michael on from the pink-tie-linux-available-at-your-local-cheap-CD-reseller dept.

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?

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  1. Dammit! by FreeLinux · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  2. yes by __aahlyu4518 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "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.

  3. Re:Rethat is for weenies by __aahlyu4518 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Real men use Debian"

    That's right... All 3 of 'em do !

  4. Re:I think bluecurve sucks... by ActiveSX · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did you just call your own theme a turd?

  5. Re:Yay... by BluBrick · · Score: 5, Funny
    That being said, I have one complaint. FIVE fscking-disks?! Hello!?!? Some people still are too cheap to buy stuff!


    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 ?
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  6. Re:Rethat is for weenies by AppyPappy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Real men make their own kernel with nothing but a ball of string, a hammer and the instruction manual from a Norelco shaver.

    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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  7. Re:FP! by jazman_777 · · Score: 3, Funny
    however I do feel they are still a Linux distrobution

    I feel reassured. Thank you.

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  8. AAFonts by DavittJPotter · · Score: 3, Funny

    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!

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  9. next theme by Sajma · · Score: 5, Funny

    It an attempt to look even more like Windows, the next RedHat release will incorporate the new "Bluescreen" theme...

  10. Re:Yay... by einhverfr · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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