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

[Derek D. Martin]

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At some point hitherto, Paul Iadonisi hath spake thusly:
> > 	- and an X.3 release is pretty much unheard of, and IMO,
> > 	  indicative of just how much was wrong with the entire 7.x 
> > 	  series :)
> 
>   Minor nit: I know the inside story about why there was a 7.3 and can
> only say that it had zero to do with the problems or lack of problems
> with 7.2.

Yeah, I concur.  And actually, I thought 7.1 and 7.2 were good, albeit
after updates.  I have generally avoided .0 releases until now...  My
personal philosophy has been not to use ANY distro that hasn't been
out for 3 months, so that I can let someone else find all the bugs for
me...  =8^)

> > >As a rule of thumb - don't dot oh ?
> > 
> > I certainly don't :)
> 
>   I usually don't, but this time I took the plunge since I was much more
> involved in testing betas than before.  I haven't seen any major
> problems with it (other than problems that are not Red Hat specific,
> outlined in my previous two posts on the topic).

Agreed.  I also took the plunge, as I've heard really good things
about it from people I know who either work at Red Hat (but remain
impartial despite), or who've used the betas.  My main complaint is
also GNOME.  I used to like it, but now I find it distasteful.  Too
much functionality is gone...  It does look nice though.  But then, so
does KDE3.  The reason I don't use that is, again, I don't like their
window manager.

I think I'm with Paul, I'm switching back to FVWM(2).  The problem there
is rebuilding from scratch a useable config...  It's a bit of a
monster to configure.  But at least I /can/ configure it the way I
want it...

>   Given the major version change in the compiler, the desktop work, and
> the inclusion of OpenOffice.org, I think they've done *much* better job
> than the previous three dot-oh releases.

I agree.

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Derek D. Martin
http://www.pizzashack.org/
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