[NTLUG:Discuss] any feed back on RH 8.0 yet

[Jack Snodgrass]

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 11:43, Fred James wrote:
> Any feedback on RH 8.0 yet?  Compare to 7.2? Good/bad/indifferent?
> I am on 7.2, and thinking of 8.0, and would appreciate your thoughts.

I liked RH 7.3 and the Ximian Desktop. 

8.0 gives me Gnome2 which is ok as far as an end user desktop
goes. I've been using RH8 at work on a daily basis for several 
weeks. I don't miss my RH7.3 system at all. 

The Ximian Desktop doesn't do Gnome2 yet, but the Evolution
Main and Pan News Reader and Mozilla all work fine. 

I probably wouldn't upgrade a web server that didn't have 
X-Windows installed. If you don't want to go from Gnome1 
to Gnome2 then you probably don't have a great need to 
upgrade. 

There are a lot of system configuration tools and things,
but they seem to be GUI orientied. If you don't need a GUI
update, then stick with what works. 

You can always update the Kernel and non-gui libs. 

When you want to upgrade the GUI, there is usually a lot
of packages that are involved that all have to be 
upgraded at once and your changes of a manual upgrade 
on a package by package basis are pretty slim. 

My 2 cents worth. 

jack