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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is running into a lot of problems that can be fixed simply by installing apt-rpm (mp3 support, dvd support, etc.). Now the problem with the mozilla plugins probably has to with the fact that RedHat most likely compiled mozilla with gcc-3.2 ~ 3.4 with the 2.3~ glibc packaged with redhat. This has produced some rather annoying side effects with regards to plugins (you will notice that on mozilla's web site you will have to use the blackdown java jre to get java support because of a conflict with sun's jre and the glibc version mozilla is compiled against). The reviewer complains about power management support... blame microsoft for a poorly documented and poorly implemented standard called ACPI. Most new machines (esp. ones from dell) implement this hardware instead of traditional APM hardware. The latest kernel releases have updated modules for ACPI, however I have noticed some problems when it comes to reading your battery on most dells. For the most part, the reviewer comes off as relative newbie and thats not a bad thing considering we want more converts to linux and the n00bs need to be aware of these issues.