The up to now highly anticipated Red Hat Linux 9 is finally released. OSNews had its hands to the final version of Red Hat Linux 9 for over 3 weeks now and we were able to evaluate it in a number of ways. The final version is not too different than the Phoebe-3 beta for which we wrote a preview recently.
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Computer
Pentium 3 933Mhz
30GB HDD 5400rpm
256MB RAM
RH8
Stress test
Compiling 2 libraries at 100% CPU
Launch
kungf00> xmms Mission Impossible.mp3; oowriter
Observation
OpenOffice took 19 secs to start acording to XMMS
XMMS did not choke at all
Comment
Either RH9 is involutionary or it seems someone has a misconfigured box...