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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Let be a little more clear on this....Im not trying to minimize RHs innovations to the linux core. Im aiming more towards desktop innovations....since thats what this is, a desktop OS. How about somthing comparable to SuSE YaST or Mandrake Control Center? How about addressing rpm hell and dependency hell......and yes I know that apt is neato, but where is RHs own solution to its own problem?
As for addressing shortfalls of 8.0, I still think they fall WAY flat. Ok, yippie they cleaned up some menus and added a samba config tool. In Gentoo I have full control of my menus and typing a single 'emerge ksambaplugin' command gets me a fully featured samba config tool in the KDE control center. This is small irrelevant stuff. How about giving ppl the choice of whether they want all the RH bluecurve and other tweaks and mods, how about KDE being molested, how about no multimedia support, wine precompiled, java, or flash support. Fine take that stuff out for the free version. But, how about licensing all the goodies for the paid versions.....especially the outrageously priced pro version.
I just get the feeling that RH is turning into the Microsoft of Linux. So they added NTPL....why? Is it that necessary? No it isnt. Furthermore, its broken several other things like wine in the process. I think the whole Linux community couldve waited til July for the 2.6 kernel with NTPL. When I go into KDE, I want it to look, act, and feel like KDE. Same with Gnome. If RH wants to theme em fine....but dont break or handicap either and always give the user the choice. RH shouldve consentrated their efforts around Gnome and left KDE alone. When I ran KDE3.1 in RH9, I couldnt even find some of 3.1s best features and utilities. I dont know whether they were hacked out or removed from all menu existance, but it was definately a sorry experience compared to other distros with an unmolested KDE.