Re: first impressions of Red Hat 8.0

[Gary <gary-list-silug@mygirlfriday.info>]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 09:14:01AM -0500 or thereabouts, Steven Pritchard wrote:

Steve,

Thanks for your review on this..
 
> Before I go on about the good things, let me give a short list of
> things that suck about Red Hat 8.0 as it is being released today.
> 
>     * rpm is totally, completely, and utterly broken.

This alone is enough to make me wait on the whole thing.

>       reasons, but this is likely to mean some reconfiguration of
>       upgraded systems.  (As an example, setting ESSID and such in
>       /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts no longer works.  They have to be set
>       in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth? or whatever.)

I hate when that happens... 
 
>     * glibc is still an "unstable" 2.2.9x (in other words, pre-2.3)
>       version.  While I can't swear this is the cause of any of the
>       rpm problems or any other stability issues, it's certainly
>       possible.

another reason to wait.

>     * The "Bluecurve" desktop is a bit...  Different.  Fortunately,
>       you don't seem to need to install it.
> 

-- 
Best regards,
Gary   

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