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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I agree with Eugenia that the OS (Red Hat Linux 8, in this case) should be alter and not the nVidia driver if alteration is needed to address the problem that she was having.
According to the license with the nVidia (Linux) driver, there is no problem with distributing the driver with the distribution as long as there is no change to the driver itself. Hence, Red Hat could have used this driver and test it (and distribute) for Red Hat Linux 8, but Red Hat didn't go down this path. Now, because of this, the graphics card and the monitor and the high refresh rate setup-combination isn't supported. Therefore, this is a matter of "Out of the Box hardward support/compatibility" issue. Agree? Simply put, this combination of configuration (or the user's need for high refresh rate and high resolution with these particular hardware) wasn't taken into consideration by Red Hat.
Due to this, there is not enough evidence (based on this review) to state that nVidia-chip graphics card are unstable.
Agree? Any comments?