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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>2) Nvidia chip-equipped cards are crap.
From what I understand, Nvidia did well with frame rates on Windows platforms until the the ATI Radeon 9700 was recently released. Currently the 9700 leads in all the important video benchmarks according to Maximum PC magazine. You can read a review of the 9700 in their current issue.Before the 9700 came out Nvidia had the lead.
I really do have to agree with Eugenia: there is a lot of usability work still to be done and the best thing Red Hat can do is face the music and get on with doing it. Red Hat 8 is not yet a viable business desktop, especially compared to Windows XP. It is getting closer, and has made great strides in the last year or two, but is still not quite there yet.