Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 23rd Feb 2003 20:42 UTC
Red Hat is the undisputed commercial leader when it comes to Linux distros. A few years ago more distros were sharing the Linux market/userbase, but these days Red Hat has overcome its competitors in impressions, sales and popularity. Popularity doesn't always mean quality though (look at Windows9x for example), so after our world's first review of Red Hat 8.0 a few months ago, I wanted to check out the new product, Red Hat 8.1, destined to be released sometime in the next one or two months. I downloaded and installed the third beta of 8.1, codenamed Phoebe, and gave it a whirl. We will be featuring a full review when the final version becomes available, but here is a preliminary report on the current status, accompanied by three screenshots. Update: Added one more screenshot.
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Now there is a menu that is way better. KDE 3.1's menu is just fugly and poorly organized. For example, it isn't clear at all what the difference between "System" and "Settings" are.
That so many apps in the menu's are listed like: Kblah (What it actually is) is indicative of the poor naming scheme IMO. For example:
Noatrun (Multimedia Player)
Who would ever guess that Noatrun is Multimedia Player? That should be entirely hidden from the user. Just call it Media Player, or something, darnit.
The only one there I don't like is "Accessories." I don't think that makes much sense.
It would be super-cool if some standard could arise out of this kind of user-presentation stuff, to such a point where as far as a newbie was concerned, KDE and GNOME were merely different things "under the hood."