Red Hat's Bluecurve (was: Red Hat 8.0 is 'official')

[jkinz at rcn.com]

On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 07:54:03PM -0400, steveo at syslang.net wrote:
> Guys, I just did an upgrade of my system here at home to 8.0 and boy do I 
> regret it. Absolutely nothing works and I have no idea why. I consider 
> myself to be pretty good at this too. So after 3 hours of fucking around, 
> I gave up and went for a reload. It sort of works now in a very crippled 
> state. My iptables firewall is no longer functional and I have a band-aid 
> one set up using their lokkit util. I tried to build a kernel and I'm 
> getting syntax errors as well as a ton of new warnings associated with the 
> new gcc; so bad that I can barely figure out what's going on. And the 
> Bluecurve thing? I'm having a hard time trying to figure out just how dumb 
> you have to be to like it. Push the browser button and you get mozilla, 
> but there's nothing to tell you that you'd get mozilla if you push it. :-(

I have always, by accident rather then by dint of planning, moved from 
N.1 or N.2 to N+1.1 so I have yet to experience a RH N.0 release.

Are all of RH N.0 release typically accompanied by more problems then 
the N.1 or N.2 releases ?

Is RH duplicating the problems automobile manufacturers have whenever
they bring out a new car model?  The more they change the more that 
is broken?

I'm wondering because I was just considering a move from 7.2 to
8.0 when I started hearing about 8.0 probs and it seemed to a higher
level of severity than I've heard before.

As a rule of thumb - don't dot oh ?


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