Red Hat 8.0. Its worth the upgrade even if you have 7.3

[Bazoukas]

The installer is polished big time. It beats hands down the installer from 7.3. Setting up multiple OSs is much easier. Right now I am triple booting. RedHat 8 - RedHat 7.3 and Windows 98se.  WE ARE TALKING ABOUT EASY!!!!!!
 Windows 2000 and XP and I have experience with both have nothing that can be compared with RedHats 8.0 Installer.

 Going further than that, the whole OS is very polished. Not only from GUI eyecandy wise wich is MUCH more than you expect, but in general it looks like they grouped everything more neatly.
  That means that, in some cases you need to do little searching to find few things (like the shell, the tree viewer in Gnome). Nothing that will require you to search very hard though. Besides you can alwasy customize your desktop.

  Application wise. Well I will say my install was 5gigs. So put one and one together. And looks like few programs that were bugy on 7.3 are bug free now.

 Speed? Here is the WEIRD thing. I also Installed RedHat 8.0 on my Inspiron Dell laptop that runs a celeron 363 and 96 RAM.  I have the Ceramic style on and other eyecandies. Despite that, Red Hat 8.0 loads, works faster than 7.3. And the difference is noticable.


  Driver support? HA. RAID now works with 8.0 along with my built in SoundCard.


 Overall, if you thinking of upgrading, I say, go for it. RedHat 8.0 is much better. I could still do all my work with 7.3, no ifs or buts. But 8.0 is more tight and much more polished.

  Now the only thing that we need is a Debian or Gentoo like utility that gets RPMs automaticaly, and Linux will start invading even stronger the MS fuck world.


 I realy feel sorry for those asses, who pay 300 dollars plus $1000-$2000 for MS ported apps.

 Jump on the wagon MS people. The Penguins are coming and are coming hard and fast.

[ November 02, 2002: Message edited by: bazoukas ]

[TheQuirk]

Red Carpet updates everything graphiclly (Ximian - the people who brought you Evolution).

Also, apt-rpm apparantly does the trick!

[Bazoukas]

Yeah i was checking Voids post just now. SWEET!!!

 I havent been in the forums for a week so i am a little out of the loop  

[voidmain]

Yeah, install apt from http://www.freshrpms.net/apt/ then just do a:

# apt-get update
# apt-get install synaptic
# synaptic

Which will install and run synaptic which is the graphical package tool. Extremely cool!

[voidmain]

Yeah, but you don't get all the extras that are available with apt-get. Like mplayer, kino, etc. Basically everything on http://www.freshrpms.net/

[choasforages]

hmmm, rpm file hacking, o btw, i have a srpm for mplayer that kicks total ass/*well, i hacked the spec file and its version pre9*/

[voidmain]

I just did a:

# apt-get install mplayer-skins

and it installed both mplayer pre9 and the skins. No compiling (the RPMS are on http://www.freshrpms.net/).

[ November 02, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[Agent007]

This is very true....I cant understand as to why some people crib about RH 8, when so much of hard work has been put into making this distro rock! RedHat is certainly moving in the RIGHT direction..

007

[Denise]

I downloaded RH 8.0 I liked it so much I went out and purchased the boxed version.  If I download a distro and like it I most certainly will purchase it.  I think 40.00 for a great OS is a steal.  And the fact i can try it before I buy it.  I wish everyone could see the greatness of Linux.

[Denise]

Another mention apt-get rules!!

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by void main:
I just did a:

# apt-get install mplayer-skins

and it installed both mplayer pre9 and the skins. No compiling (the RPMS are on http://www.freshrpms.net/).

[ November 02, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

now where's the fun in that?