Star World's First Review of Red Hat 8.0-Psyche
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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RE: Eugenia
by Matthew Gardiner on Mon 30th Sep 2002 03:16 UTC

Please, stop telling tall stories.

1) Nvidia drivers can't be include with the distro because of licensing issues, hence the reason you have to manually download off their (Nvidia) site,regardless of what OS you run. Windows XP drivers aren't accelerated either! Hence, you'd still have to download it, even if you were running your precious Windows XP.

2) Nvidia chip-equipped cards are crap. Period. Sure, you want to be Mr(s) "Lets see my frame rates go through the roof", yet, moan because you eXPerienced instability. Nvidia cards are unstable, whether it is Windows, Linux, *BSD. Want to be a fps freak, use a Nvidia, want something stable for *NIX, then buy a Matrox. Having run Matrox's under *NIX since God was a teenager, I have never had any problems. FYI (for your information), I an using a Matrox G550 32 DDR.

3) Stop moaning about usability. 95.987345% of people could easily use the above interface without an issue. Why pander and worry about the miserable, pathetic 4 point something percent who, regardless of how much research will still balls something up.