Linked by paul pianta on Wed 2nd Apr 2003 17:43 UTC
This is by no means a technical review - it is just a summary of my experience as I was going along, installing and configuring a Red Hat Linux 9 machine. I installed the standard "workstation" installation on my 2 year old desktop machine. I like Gnome at home, KDE at work, but this review only covers my experience with the default Gnome installation.
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I haven't installed RH 9 right now, but I've the latest beta installed. I was thinking that RH9 will have a lot of things more, but isn't true. I was expecting Mozilla 1.3, GNOME 2.2.1, MySQL 4.0 but it doesn't have it (the GNOME version had several weeks before the introduction of RH 9)
But I must say that RH 9 is a stronger linux. I don't like RH 8 too much because I have some installation problems, and I think that i s not complete. RH 9beta (8.0.93) looks slightly better, is faster (mostly because NPTL), the GUI configuration files are improved, and the CUPS printer is awesome.
I think that RH could do a lot of work more, because in look is pretty the same, but if you use it you will see that it have some advantages. I could prefer to call 8.0+ or 8.1, but I like more this RH version than anyone after 7.2