I had RH7.2 on my laptop and had to wait nearly 2 months (to get the disks right) to be able to install 8.0, or rather do an upgrade to 8.0. I have been a Red Hat user since version 3.0. Unfortunately this upgrade came to me as a GREAT disappointment:
1) The "new" desktop, that BlueSomething thing is the worst thing I ever used, I was so disenchanted with how the system has "degraded" that I am now using Windows again after many years... 2) As usual from all the upgrades, the upgrade method completely breaks down/destroys all the desktop URL shortcuts. After the upgrade you see urlABXCY86xErer or something like that and the shortcut is useless. Same thing happened in previous upgrades, every time I had to remove them and recreate them if I new where they pointed to. 3) The "new" menu system of that blue thing is disappointing too. Can't find anything as I used to in my previous Gnome/Sawfish thing. There is no possibility to select other window managers even though the RPMs for those are installed? 4) It seems impossible to configure ANY of the SawFish window management parameters. Using the "explorer" thing, when you reach the "SawFish" folder and click on any of the parameter groups (Focus, Sounds, etc.) simply does nothing. I noticed that if I did it on the command line (sawfish-ui -group=focus) I get an error saying that it cannot connect to the socket /tmp/.sawfish-myusername and that is strange because (a) /tmp/.sawfish-myusername does not exist, but /tmp/.sawfish-root does, and (b) I am logged in (X) as myself (myusername) and NOT as root. As an experiment I executed the same command as root thinking but it still complained that it could not connect to the socket. 5) Mozilla 1.0 STILL complains that it could not initialize the security component, when are they (Mozilla) going to fix that??? has been appearing for AGES. 6) The "terminal" windows that now pop up are super huge, almost an abomination! what happened to the good old, decent sized, fully configurable terminal windows of RH7.3 ? 7) APM is still broken. If I simulate closing the lid by pressing down the button that detects that, the screen goes black, I hear a couple of beeps but the system seems "alive". The problem is it doesn't respond anymore to anything, only way out is the Windows solution (REBOOT!).. I understand APM isn't a redhat specific thing :) but I can definitely name it as one of the most unsuccessful pieces of Linux software, one would expect that after so many years it would have improved (APM) so much that it would work for most systems out of the box (as it did on my system when I had RH6.x). 8) Previously I was able to configure GDM to use "faces" that no longer seems possible 9) What happened to the menu that appeared when clicking on the desktop background area? now it brings up a useless menu. I want to be able to change the window manager and theme to something more useful and more tasteful than that BlueCurve abomination. 10) Evolution seemed to hang endlessly during the import, in the end it did not import anything, not even my Balsa/ELM mailbox.... So I guess that is it, after 10 years of being a fervent Linux user I have grown terribly disappointed :( and RH8.0 seems to have given the final blow to that. Anyway, if anybody knows solutions to the above mentioned issues I would appreciate it. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
