Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 30th Sep 2002 01:10 UTC
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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Coming from Eugenia, this review isn't one of those all-way angrily "Linux desktop should be buried" rant. Only half-way :-)
Anyway...
One of the biggest problems I have with the current UI is the inconsistent, confusing and bloated "Start" Red Hat menu.
Blame KDE. Better yet, blame no-one has added menu panel to KDE. And with Bero leaving RH, this will be more difficult to happen. Sad.
I couldn't find a samba configuration tool coming from Red Hat
Isn't SWAT installed by default?
The nVidia driver, which I compiled from the .tar.gz packages are NOT stable under Red Hat 8 on my machine even if when I disabled AGP support.
NVidia must get RH 8, see what RH did, and *then* make new drivers that work with RH 8.
Living with proprietary drivers has those problems. Yes, RMS mantra sometimes drive people crazy, but he's right. Hope someday NVIDIA does what ATi does and help the XFree86 team.
(And that's why I always tell people wanting to run Linux to go buy ATi instead of NVIDIA)