Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 30th Sep 2002 01:10 UTC
Red Hat Gentoo, Lindows and Lycoris arguably were the big surprises of the year in the Linux land, but everyone is waiting the release of Red Hat 8.0 with, possibly, the biggest anticipation ever for a Linux distribution. Since Red Hat posted the Limbo and Null betas, fans of the most popular distribution on earth were making waves and even called this new version a Windows killer. Does this really hold up though? Will Red Hat be successful on their quest to infiltrate the business workstation/destkop market? Read more to find out and view some of the high resolution screenshots we have for you! UPDATE: Red Hat 8 is out! ZDNews has an article about the new release of Red Hat 8.0.
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Abiword
by Ben on Mon 30th Sep 2002 01:52 UTC

That problem with the Abiword fonts really sucks! I've been using RH beta 'null' for a while now and I submitted a bug on it: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=72633
It is really a shame that they didn't fix this for the release. The good news is that I'm running CVS Abiword, and it doesn't have this problem (also has xft support - woohoo). Hopefully RH will upgrade this package through RHN when the new Abiword comes out.