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

[Val Harris]

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 might as well throw in my *humble* opinions!

RH 8.0 took some getting used to (all of the menus changed); but now
that the learning curve has been mastered, I love it. (I admit to being
an RH bigot.)  I may have avoided some problems by doing a scratch
install, rather than updating.  (I prefer scratch installs on any *nix.)
On my RedHat boxes, /home is a separate partition which I don't
overwrite, so none of my users lose anything in the process.  I use pan
for news, galeon & mozilla for browsing, and mozilla for mail.  I
haven't had any KDE problems, but only play KDE games. Mozilla runs
RealAudio, Shockwave, and java plugins without problem.  RealPlayer
works.  I haven't tried DVD's, but someone else already said they work.

I recommend RH, but like I said, I'm biased.

Val
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If you aren't happy with what you've got now, what
makes you think you'll be happier with more?