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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1. Would anyone who knows NPTL and gcc 3.2 comment on GStreamer support for it? I understand GStreamer is a heavilly threaded subsystem (a Good Thing(TM) IMHO), but has some issues with certain compilers and/or thread libraries.
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2. Would some kind soul create a source-based RedHat 8.1 distro which uses the RH8.1 SRPMS? I would like to compile-install RedHat 8.1 on my Athlon and i686 systems. This would be a god-send.
3. I think the 3D-accelerated NVidia drivers don't work because XFree86 4.3 uses a different DRI version. Hopefully, NVidia is working on a driver for XF86 4.3. (Need a betatester, NVidia?
4. Is the mozilla suite released with RH8.1 compiled with gcc 3.2? It's just that I've compiled mozilla-1.3b with gcc-3.2 (with gtk2 and xft support) and it works flawlessly with Crossover plugins 1.2 and the gcc-3.2 compiled Blackdown 1.4.1_01 JVM. I even compiled galeon-1.3.2 against that mozilla and it works great (am using it right now). I was just hoping that RedHat did it saving me from having to recompile.
Great mini-review, Eugenia! How about a screenshot with your LighthouseBlue theme? :-D