I agree. We all know that x.0 releases have been historically problematic.
Now think about this: we all know that for the most part all of these packages undergo continual development. We all know that fixing one bug can create a new one, or uncover a bug that wasn't seen or previously known. So basically with continual development on these programs, rolling a distro is like hitting a moving target. The point is if we wait for every single included package to be perfect, we'll be waiting forever. Red Hat is just trying to put out a distro to bring stuff up to date (Xfree 4.0.1 being the one most interesting to me), and (hopefully) make a generally better distro. At some point, they have to decide to draw the line, and put out the next release, since they don't control development on most of the packages.
Now I'm not saying that I'm completely happy about Red Hat. Fortunately I was able to upgrade 2 workstations without having them getting hosed up (woohoo!). Everything has been working fine for the last week. The installer was even nice enough to not replace my 2.2.18pre10 kernel as the default for lilo. But the thing that really pissed me off, was the 2.96 GCC compiler. This is the one thing that I think that Red Hat should have stayed with a nice mature compiler version. (It took me a while to figure out why I couldn't compile a kernel)
The bottom line: its not as bad as you think. If you want to have a distro as close to 'perfect' as possible, go to debian.
As for me, I'm 2 for 2, and everything is all happy on my boxes (except for the silly 2.96 gcc), and I'm happy with how its working.
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I agree. We all know that x.0 releases have been historically problematic.
Now think about this: we all know that for the most part all of these packages undergo continual development. We all know that fixing one bug can create a new one, or uncover a bug that wasn't seen or previously known. So basically with continual development on these programs, rolling a distro is like hitting a moving target. The point is if we wait for every single included package to be perfect, we'll be waiting forever. Red Hat is just trying to put out a distro to bring stuff up to date (Xfree 4.0.1 being the one most interesting to me), and (hopefully) make a generally better distro. At some point, they have to decide to draw the line, and put out the next release, since they don't control development on most of the packages.
Now I'm not saying that I'm completely happy about Red Hat. Fortunately I was able to upgrade 2 workstations without having them getting hosed up (woohoo!). Everything has been working fine for the last week. The installer was even nice enough to not replace my 2.2.18pre10 kernel as the default for lilo. But the thing that really pissed me off, was the 2.96 GCC compiler. This is the one thing that I think that Red Hat should have stayed with a nice mature compiler version. (It took me a while to figure out why I couldn't compile a kernel)
The bottom line: its not as bad as you think. If you want to have a distro as close to 'perfect' as possible, go to debian.
As for me, I'm 2 for 2, and everything is all happy on my boxes (except for the silly 2.96 gcc), and I'm happy with how its working.
Adaptec's EZ CD Creator should be able to burn the iso. Use file->create cd from image.