Red Hat 8.0
 

I was planning on putting the new server together this past weekend, but then found out that Red Hat 8.0 came out today. It has a new GUI, "Bluecurve", that is supposed to be a lot more user-friendly, and also tries to make GNOME & KDE more similar to each other.

However, it appears that the "official" mirrors don't yet have the 8.0 ISO's. I don't know if this is an intentional move on Red Hat's part to try to sell more CD's. Anyhoo, this site currently has them, in case anyone else is looking:

ftp://mir1.ovh.net/ftp.redhat.com/ft...0/en/iso/i386/

That is just perfect timing, because I was going to rebuild my Linux workstation today. :)

dumping xp, dave?

tobiasly, have you tried it yet? do you like it?

~james

No. But I'll always need to have a Linux workstation, because I do a lot of work on it. Right now, it's located in my office (with a new motherboard, processor and RAM and 2x36GB U160 drives waiting to be shitted on by Linux). I just brought in the drives today, so I was planning on installing Red Hat... and now I think I will. :)

The home system is happily running Windows XP Professional.

No, I'm still downloading.. maybe I shoulda waited until it was finished before sharing the link. :)

It's friggin' huge.. 5 CD's. Altough I believe one of those is mostly OpenOffice, and another has various admin utilities.

It looks like aside from the new GUI, there isn't a whole helluva lot that's new. So it may not be that big a deal for me, since I hardly ever use the desktop, although I might try it out more with the new setup.

I also never got Evolution to work right on my 7.2 box.. it was bundled beginning with 7.3, and it looks like 8.0 has an even later version. So maybe it'll work this time, 'cause I'd really like to give it a try.

Evolution is pretty easily the best email client I've ever used (with mutt a very close second). I got 1.0.8 working on Red Hat 7.2, 7.3 and Yellow Dog 2.2. The easiest way, of course, is to just use Red Carpet to install it (you don't have to install Ximian GNOME to install Evolution). Man is it good. :)

I'd be interested to know how much of a 'windows-killer' it actually is. I have to set up a computer for my roommate, and she's very much not a computer person, and I don't feel like buying all new software for the thing.

In other words, I wonder if it's ready for primetime yet.

I think my problem with Evolution is that I tried to install it the old-fashioned way, and it crashed or had some sort of missing dependency. Then I tried to uninstall it and use Red Carpet. And now something's screwed up.. it crashes anytime I try to setup a new user's Inbox.

Hermit, Red Hat themselves say that even now it's not ready for primetime.. their target is technical people who want a more unified environment. But I'll let you know what I find out.

Hmmm.. that link no longer works. I've only got two of the ISO's, and now there's this message in a README.txt:

Looks like the dealy in ISO availability is planned after all.

Ah, ok. I was going off the /. headline when I said that.

Well then hermit, did you see this link to the review? It looks pretty in-depth

Here's a screenshot from that article. Sorry for the slow load, but I didn't want to resize lest clarity be lost. Dave, you'll prolly dig all those font settings!

http://www.tobiasly.com/misc/cellar/bluecurve.jpg

I just hope all those fucking handicapped shortcuts aren't enabled by default, like in XP...

Yeah, I read the first page or 2, but then my short attention span kicked in...

I read her entire review and looked at all the screenshots. It looks nice. I'll probably buy it. :)

I don't think I like the red hat on the start icon.

Well, it's about fuckin' time... after several aborted transfers halfway through the files, I finally have all 5 ISO's. The FTP site doesn't appear to be working at all, although I got much faster transfer rates of the HTTP server anyway.

MD5's are A-OK, I'm burning the images as we speak, and hopefully tomorrow I'll actually get to install it!

do you actually need all 5 or are the last 2 source discs? i cant get even 1 of those friggin isos downloaded properly, so post whether or not its worth 40 bucks and maybe ill stick to 7.3 for now.

~james