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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. F**ck redhat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If I wanted to activate my OS I would have gone with Windows XP. Not only do they plagiarise XP user interface, now they also copy Microsoft style practices! Way to go redhat...

  2. Just my $0.02 by papasui · · Score: 4, Redundant

    I personally love that you can customize Linux to look and work the way you want it to, but setting that aside, I feel the only way you can actually convince the novice computer user a shot st using Linux the UI needs to consistant across the distos. I know plenty of people I work with that took a long time to learn Windows and might be willing to give Linux a shot, but not if they are going to be lost when they use a different GUI on a different Linux machine. If it came down to a somewhat standardized look, I think there would be a lot more converts. Yea that means making it more like Windows but that seems be what 95% of the population wants...

  3. This post is redundant by EvilAlien · · Score: 2, Redundant
    ... not to mention a few days late.

    Red Hat 8 was released on Monday, as covered in Red Hat 8.0 Reviewed.

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