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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RedHat 8.x is really good. I think their default kernel is the best. I was recently very impressed when it recognised my maxtor usb HD, hotpluggable and everything.
What I really cant understand is why they use GNOME2+GNOME1.4+moz+OOo+others, it is lightyears behind a KDE only desktop (works today) or a GNOME2 only desktop (wich sadly dont exist yet).
nautilus, evolution, mozilla, openoffice all use their own gui toolkit (or toolkit version)! On a modern desktop every app has to use the same gui toolkit, no way it can compete with proprietary offerings otherwise. I dont care if openoffice is the best free software office solution today, there is no future in the one toolkit per app desktop. If all apps used GNOME2 then it would atleast suck consistently (more or less).