Redhat 9.0 coming out April 7th

[John Abreau]

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"Derek D. Martin" <gnhlug at sophic.org> writes:

> Travis, I don't think that's a very fair assessment.  I've been using
> RH8 on virtually all my systems since it came out, and it's been
> rock-solid.  Frankly, I think it is the best release of ANY Linux
> distribution that I've used...

I've been doing the same; my mail/web/dns server at home is running 
Redhat 8.0. I did have two complaints about 8.0, one of which was 
fixed in the phoebe-3 beta. 

The minor complaint, which was finally fixed, was the metacity window 
manager, which didn't have an option to lower a window by right-clicking 
the title bar. When I did a google search I learned that this seemed 
to be the number one complaint about metacity, and that the author was 
adamant about not allowing it to be added. Personally, I found this 
to be a show-stopper, and eventually I gave up on metacity and installed 
sawfish. In the beta, the behavior was finally added, bound to 
middle-click.

The major complaint, which still exists in the beta, has to do with 
apache,
perl, and CPAN. I use a helpdesk package called RequestTracker, which 
depends heavily on a whole bunch of perl modules, and I was unable 
to get it installed on Redhat 8.x. Turns out I couldn't even set up 
CPAN; when I ran 'perl -MCPAN -e shell', and within that tried to 
install the Bundle::CPAN, it failed miserably with some bizarre errors. 
So I still keep around a Redhat 7.3 box to run RequestTracker. 

Aside from that, I also do a lot of video work, and I've found that 
the mpeg encoding and editing tools are more mature and stable now. 


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