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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For the final review? Red Hat 8.1 includes NTPL threads implementation and I'm curious if there is any detectable speedup in threaded apps like Evolution. I highly doubt something as mundane as Evolution will be drasticly sped up by it, but what about Apache 2.0 or other such apps? I'm quite curious. About the i686 issue, I've noticed that once I registered my installations of Red Hat and update the system I'm offered the opportunity to install Athlon optimized versions of the kernel (and maybe glibc, not sure). There are also i686 versions availible from Red Hat if you wish to spare the compile. While this won't help the other apps, this may add a perk up. I myself never noticed much difference, but I don't know of any other mainstream distro that offers platform optimizations for their kernels. Anyone care to comment?