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  From: Brandon <branmickey@internode.on.net>
  To  : Ryan Verner <xfesty@computeraddictions.com.au>
        Alex Wallis <awol@prepaidonline.com.au>
        linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 14:47:28 +0930

Re: RedHat 9.0 released

This is the best review I have seen to date .... note: done from a sys admin
point of view.
http://www.gurulabs.com/RedHatLinux9-review.html

Regards,
Brandon Johnson


>> Joseph Burford wrote:
>> > 
>> > > RedHat 9.0 appears to have been released in the U.S.  I've
>> > 
>> > Actually it has only been released to RHN subscribers at present.
>> > 
>> > General public for download on April 7 :-)
>
>What exactly does RH9 do that RH8 doesn't?
>
>Seems really odd to me that a point release has come out so soon, without any

>minor revisions; RedHat seemed to only change major revisions when major
>kernel/userland changes occurred; say XFree, compiler, desktop enviroment,
etc.
>
>Screenshots I've seen of RH9 look just like RH8 - Gnome 2.2 with bluecurve.

>
>From what I saw of RH8 - it looked great, the desktop was as friendly as I've

>ever seen it, and the admin/setup tools seemed to have a consistency that 6

>and 7 never had.  I haven't used Redhat seriously since 5.X though, so I'd

>love to hear from others what the problems were with 8, and what 9 does that
8
>didn't.
>
>R
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