RedHat

[Jonathan Hutchins]

Quoting Jared Smith <jared at trios.org>:

> Some people think that in order for their own
> distro to succeed, all others must fail. 

To be fair, Jason's argument is that if RedHat is offered as a Linux 
for non-LinuxGeek users and dissappoints them, it hurts the "cause" of 
Linux.

However, he bases his argument on his own experience as a gamer with 
RH7.0, known to have been a heavily flawed release, and misses the fact 
that the recent hype about RedHat centered on the fact that a lot of 
rough edges were significantly smoothed between 7.0 and 8.0.

Me, I'm probably going to wait until 8.1 before I put the effort in to 
run it on my desktop, because Gnome, KDE and several other packages 
have made big improvements since 8.0 came out and I'd rather wait than 
spend my own time trying to do all the upgrades.  Got other things to 
do.

However, if I get my system, including sound recording and playback, 
working under 8.1 I'm probably going to buy CrossOver Office and 
finally get rid of Win95 for good.

(I was noticing today that W2k on a 1GHz/256M machine is about the same 
level of nimbleness as Win95 on a 500MHz/312M.)

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