Sweet. Usually I don't upgrade a server unless there is a REALLY good reason to, so the server features like apache and the like are not that important right now. Good information. I am finishing up the 5th disk now and I think I will install it in VMWare for a quick test...
Thanks, and keep the opinions coming :) -- Joe Giles [EMAIL PROTECTED] AOL: mcigiles Jack Bowling said: > ** Reply to message from Joe Giles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 05 Oct > 2002 18:10:57 -0600 (MDT) > > >> This might not be the most appropriate spot for this kind of question, >> and I will gladly apologize if someone doesn't like it, but I would >> like to know what you all think about the new Red Hat 8.0. I am >> downloading the 4th CD now and I was going to install it, but in light >> of e-mails this last week, I'm not sure I want to with all the >> problems others are having. I have a perfectly good working 7.3 >> install and I really would like to get others opinions of it before I >> format and reinstall. I was thinking about installing it on VMWare and >> giving it a test drive first. >> >> Anyway, what do you think; do you like it, or would you wait for the >> next release (or any fixes)? > > Can't think of a better forum. > > I love RH8. It is stable as a rock for me. I did a full load cuz I have > the hard drive space. The install took 63 minutes for the formatting of > four partitions and the ~4.5G install. I would recommend against the > full load - you get a lot of crap you don't need. > > But I would not do it unless you have a backup of your previous system. > RH elected to drop some things which I still need, e.g., Netscape (my > online banking does not work with Mozilla). Have been un-tarring various > apps from my backups today. The first thing I did was go to > freshrpms.net and download apt and apt-devel. Then I did an update and > upgrade and install of all the missing pieces: xmms, mplayer, xine, > after "rpm -e"ing the RH versions, of course. RH8 is noticeably skimpy > with the multimedia apps. This may or may not be a concern for you. My > pet peeve at this point is the lack of Gnome applets such as > screen-shooter which have yet to be ported over to Gnome2. > > But as a whole, I have had no problems. I had reservations since my 7.3 > box was solid and there is the old adage that a #.0 release is one to be > avoided. The tempest in a teapot about the Bluecurve desktop theme is > all hot air. The KDE and Gnome apps are all there if you want them. All > the base functions such as networking, etc. work out of the box as they > did in 7.3. Only exception to this is that Apache 2.0 is not fully > cooked yet, e.g., it doesn't allow perl handlers in the httpd.conf file > yet. Sigh..... > > Now, to get my scanner working..... :-))) > > jb > > -- > Jack Bowling > mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
