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 appreciate your candid review.
Thanks!
>On Null and in your screenshots, the AA fonts are too blurry for my tastes
No. You can select which level of AA you want. Check this screenshot with the two font panels where you can configure the font engine to your liking!
http://goober.osnews.com/img/1842/redhat1.jpg
Also, please do not forget that most of my screenshots are rendering with the Verdana font, which I changed because I did not like the default Sans. Check this screenshot(http://members.csolutions.net/zayda/osnews/img/1842/redhat3.jpg) and check on the RIGHT hand side of the shot. The right hand side has the default Sans font loaded, and you can see how the letters and numbers are colliding! Unfortunately, Red Hat does not come with well designed fonts, this is why I reverted to my Verdana from the Windows partition.
>Did RH add any "hardening" tools or do we still have to do everything by hand?
It comes with a firewall by default and SSH installed and loaded, but I didn't bother too much with it because I am already behind a BSD firewall... I should have gotten more into depth about this, you are right...