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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>Nvidia drivers can't be include with the distro because of licensing issues
Read the license. It does NOT dissallow the distribution.
"2.1.1 Rights. Customer may install and use one copy of the SOFTWARE on a single computer, and except for making one back-up copy of the Software, may not otherwise copy the SOFTWARE. This LICENSE of SOFTWARE may not be shared or used concurrently on different computers.
2.1.2 Linux Exception. Notwithstanding the foregoing terms of Section 2.1.1, SOFTWARE designed exclusively for use on the Linux operating system may be copied and redistributed, provided that the binary files thereof are not modified in any way (except for unzipping of compressed files)."
And why are you hanging of this issue? As I write on the article, I have bigger problems with stability of both the nv and nvidia drivers, rather than the actual inclusion or not of the driver in RH8. I wish I had stability even if it wouldn't be included by default.
>2) Nvidia chip-equipped cards are crap.
Your opinion, not mine. I used to have a TNT2-Ultra and it was rock solid. And this is Asus we are talking about, not cheap no-name shit.
>Stop moaning about usability
NEVER.