Red Hat Linux 8.0 Personal

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Summary: If You Have Windows XP DO NOT BUY!
Review: I was really hopeful about this program. I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 Laptop which was already running Windows XP Pro, so I had to make a partition. This I did with Partition Magic 7.0 (a good program). However, when I tried to install Red Hat it wouldn't do anything. There was no "setup", no applications on any of the six CDs. Meanwhile, the worthless (and I mean really, really worthless) installation guide was of no help-it kept on telling me to use the Red Hat CD. Well, that would be great if it WAS one CD. RedHat has no customer service for 8.0, so what did they tell me when I went to technical support? Buy a manual. I was VERY disappointed with the company. Buy SuSe, I have seen it installed and it is a vacation. The OS is probably good, but because Windows XP users can't install it, and Red Hat itself doesn't help you, I am guessing I will never find out. Get Red Hat 7.3 or SuSe 8.1, but for your own sake DO NOT get this awful operating system.

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Summary: Best Linux yet.
Review: This is certainly the best version of Red Hat Linux yet. You get Gnome 2.0 desktop, KDE 3 desktop, and a host of accessibility tools for the blind and handicap

Current accessibility applications include speakup screen review consol screen reader, which allows a talking setup of Linux for blind Linux users, emacspeak audio desktop, which gives spoken access to emacs, and the festival tts system which is going to be included in the Gnome Accessibility Project.

Other features includes an upgraded clock speed which makes 8.0 run faster than it did in earlier versions.

Over all this is simply the best version of Red Hat I've seen to date.

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Summary: Good for the corporate user, not the programmer or student
Review: I have been using RH since their 5.1 release and am an RHCE. By far, this release has the cleanest install process (as compared to their previous releases). However, if you have been become accustomed to Gnome1.4 or KDE3 (my preference), you may be disappointed. Frankly, I like the look of KDE3 and the options (e.g. translucent menus). RH also hacked it to make double-click the default action for KDE. Also, Konquerer is not on the panel, although it can be invoked from the command line, but it doesn't display the tree navigation by default.

Administration is simpler and more powerful now (e.g. changing XF86 settings without manually editing the text file), but the mp3 patent prompted RH to remove mp3 support from XMMS and Noatun. A novice user would not know how to download xmms, compile, and install it.

I think that RH truly is targeting the corporate customers. With Windows, you only have one interface out of the box (other shells have been created but none have become prevalent, and most users don't even know that). By RH tweaking Gnome and KDE to what appears to be a unified desktop, the typical mindless corporate customer won't become "confused" by choices - "Which one should I use? Which is better, KDE or Gnome?". Those questions are avoided with RH's approach. Savvy users will feel constrained.

I went back to RH7.3 after trying 8.0. Granted, 8.0 is faster because of the O(1) scheduler (order of one, for those not familiar with algorithm efficiency). In short, this is not for the Linux enthusiast; it's for the corporate desktop.

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Summary: it's not perfect but it's nice
Review: Well I love everything about this release however how do you edit the menus? I have a problem with how redhat made up the menus but everything else I can't really find any problems with and enjoy using it. Now when the heck is amazon.com gonna ship it to me?? it's been out for 3 days now!

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Summary: Its getting even better
Review: With version 8 you get KDE 3.03 and Gnome 2.0 - both serious challengers to XP in terms of user interface. Installation is now a breeze with its updated installation manager..

If you want a solid and well-maintained Linux distro it would be difficult top Red Hat.

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Summary: Redhat 8.0
Review: With each new release Redhat continues to impress. Now, with an increased interest in the desktop, Redhat has it's strongest release to date. New config tools, along with a streamlined desktop make this a good choice for all those new to linux. While on the other hand, the inclusion of the latest version of most developemt and server apps create a distro for the experience user among us.
So basically, if you haven't tried linux before or if you swear by it, this is certainly something you might want to pick up.

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Summary: Getting to know Linux
Review: I've been using Linux for about six months now. Red Hat 8.0 works well with my home LAN & Macintosh PPCs. The earlier versions 7.1, 7.3 used to be challenging especially undoing my WindowZ mentality. I like the way that RH8.0 smoothly configures on my Ethernet LAN. I intend to use Linux exclusively after test driving it for a few months. I don't need to reboot on every system change, only once an a while I would even have to logout. My system is dual OS'd with Windows 2000 Pro. and Grub startup. When or if I need to upgrade to RH9.0 I won't hesitate. I finally bought a Red Hat manual so you know that I've been winging it.