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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?
WHAT? Wood is to a fruit.. Yummy and nutritious. (so go the rantings of a mad man). Sorry I had to say that. Your comment was a great analogy IMHO. I think there are three sides to this coin however that intregue me. The first is a blatant need to have or respond to an outside influence making waves within the community. So many people seem to need a bad guy in order to define the good. Our Second side is: I personaly have not felt comfortable with some of the security based decisions RH has made in the past and that puts them in the suspect list at this time, however I do feel they are still a Linux distrobution. Maby Red Hat is not the uber distrobution so many media personalities tout, but they are just as any distrobution, contributors in great mass to the open source community. The third side to this oddly shaped coin is a lack of definition. What truely constitutes Linux? For so many people it is an open free market, an oportunity to jump into development without fear of reprisal, or a chance to use a realy cool looking extremely customizable interface on top of a common set of functional core tools. Either way the point im making is that an opinion is very relative. While you "correct" another person, perhaps we should more consider a debate on the spacific point you wish to correct in order to allow the "lesson" to unfold. I know this sounds contrary or argumentative and even though I personaly aggree with your assessment of Red Hat as a proven Linux Distrobution. I feel your design to correct the original poster did not come from an understanding of what context the poster was coming from. Sorry bout the heavy wordage. I do believe to much thought went into my response.. Where is my ritalin. Hesperant J ieger The Rainworks Project
Get a source distro! Nothing beats a compile-yourself distribution optimized for your system in every ELF:
lunar linux
Gentoo
Rock linux
Sorcerer linux
SourceMage
In the end... binary distro's are just like windoze
Now, that doesn't mean that redhat == linux. I am a bit disappointed to see that now that RH takes the step to the desktop (which IMHO they should have taken long ago, when they are actually preaching against Linux adoption in the desktop marker) everybody seem to be discovering that Linux can run on desktops. Hello, have you tried mandrake ?. Mandrake also has dektop integration, my menues look the same in GNOME and KDE. The task oriented menues pick the best apps wherever they come from. It really feels integrated. But it looks like RH invented the concept. And this is simply not true.
I tried myself Mandrake a week ago with 9.0. It blew mi mind. Really really much more useable than anything else I tried. I switched my Laptop from RH 7.3 to ML 9.0. Then my home desktop. Now I'll switch my office workstation. I am configuring in 15 seconds with "point'n click" things that took me several minutes (if not hours) of HOWTOs and RTFM's and what not. Almost everything gets autodetected. SMB mounts, NFS mounts, hardware, it is really amazing.
In general, the improvement in usability I feel in the transition RH 7.3 -> ML 9.0 is similar to the one I experienced back in the day when I switched Slackware -> RH 6.0
I am not flaming RH, they do a damn fine distro. I am just saying, if you are looking for usability, may be you'll find rewarding to give Mandrake 9.0 a shot. The install will take no effort and little time. If you are looking for mission-critical stability, I cannot tell because I haven't used ML long enough to compare.