Linked by Niall C. Brady on Tue 25th Mar 2003 16:51 UTC
I installed Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike) to see what has changed between it and the previous major version of Red Hat (8.0). The article features some installation screenshots and of course some post-install screenshots showing Bluecurve in Gnome and KDE (more shots here), user experience and discussion of whether you should upgrade or not.
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"It still doesn't have an Outlook mail type equivalent, which is a shame for Windows to Linux users, however Evolution is a very good email application."
Um Evolution IS and Outlook equivalent.
"Nothing with the quality of Paint Shop Pro or Adobe Photoshop but they are professional applications, GIMP is included and I used it to capture many of the screenshots."
Last time I checked Windows didn't come with PaintshopPro or Photoshop. What's your point? You can run those via Wine if you want.
"There are no apparent icons for network strength or for that matter connectivity on the taskbar (as you would see on a windows taskbar), so I'm left with using an x-term logged in as 'su' to check my internet connection status via command line tools like ifup eth1, ping host and ifconfig, and as simple as that is to some, it's not for everyone."
Right click the panel and add the wireless applet. Meh, do more research.
"CUPS is now the default printing software and looks relatively simple and actually strikingly like the Windows Print Manager equivalent, I don't have a working printer so I can't really comment on its' effectiveness."
Cups is FAR more advanced then windows print manager. Again do some research and find out why.
Linux isn't windows and never will be. If your looking for what your running now but simply on linux your barking up the wrong tree. Why even bother with linux at that point? Just stick with Windows. These reviews which say X linux product doesn't act EXACTLY like it does on Windows are retarded. Again I'll say it. LINUX ISN'T WINDOWS AND NEVER WILL BE. Once you stop trying to make linux into windows you might finally start enjoying yourself. Until then it will never live up to your biased and tainted views of what Windows, Um I mean Linux, should act like.