First the major change in RH 5.0 to 6.0 to 7.0 to 8.0 appear to be major changes in the RH side of the software meaning major changes in the installation and configuration programs.
The changes in x.0 to x.2 to x.3 appear to be changes in the content and progressive increases (sometimes) in stability. For RH 7.3 to RH 8.0 the kernel was increased to 2.4.18 from 2.4.3 (I believe 2.4.3 is correct although it may be incorrect.). Open Office replaced Star Office and a hatchet job was done to KDE and KDE programs. There is no more KDE. Considering if you had an official copy of RH7.3 installed you could then automaticall update most programs then the only advantage RH 8.0 would bring to your system would be the updated kernel and the new configuration program. As for as the programs which you can not automatically update an inspection shows most of the GUI programs appear to be KDE the very programs RH left out of RH 8.0. Bottom line RH 8.0 Personal is not half as good as RH 7.3 Personal. I have no idea the status of the profession edition is because it cost $150 versus $40 for the personal. Note RH 8.0 Personal is cheaper than RH 7.3 Personal which was $55. I would recommend switching to Suse which is in some ways a more advanced distribution than RH except for Yast2. If you want to do a standard configuration with Suse but if you have a oddball or personalized configuration well you may experience certain difficulties. As far as RH new GUI it appears to be nothing more than a screwed up version of Gnome. Fortunally I have 2 HDs for this computer a test HD and the normal operating HD. I say fortunately because I installed RH 8.0 on the test HD for verification of installation before updating the normal system. The above comments come from that test. There is only one other comment on this pitiful trash distribution - RH 8.0 I wish to make. At our next Linux meeting I will give away the RH 8.0 complete box as a boobie prize. Thanks Frank On Wednesday 23 October 2002 08:33, Paul Kraus wrote: > What does everyone think of RedHat 8. > > Paul Kraus > Network Administrator > PEL Supply Company > 216.267.5775 Voice > 216-267-6176 Fax > www.pelsupply.com > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
