[plug] RH 8.0 migration woes

[Tsuki-yomi]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Tim Bowden wrote:

> Patrick Tehvand wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 11:12, John Knight wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Ah sorry, I was after the mp3 decoding capabilities of Kaboodle.... I've 
> >>given RH 8.0 the arse anyway..... (bye bye)
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
> >As one of the great supporters of RedHat for a long time - I too am
> >moving (slowly) away. I dont like that they are breaking stuff all the
> >time!
> >
> >Thinking of moving to Mandrake, though the lure of the dark side is
> >strong.
> >  
> >
> I have been using rh since 5.2 but bluecurve and the continually 
> dwindling range of choices out of the box means I am going to start 
> playing with debian on a spare pc soon.  Perhaps it will become my 
> primary desktop distro...  Either way, I will not be dropping rh 
> completely.  It is still good have it on my cv.
> 
> Tim Bowden

Personally I've been using RH since 6.2 but RH8.0 was the nail in the
coffin.
 
I installed it on a spare PC while I still had 7.3 on my main machine - I
hated it.

Ignoring the menus, what was wrong with the default icons??

I've swapped to using Mdk9.1 at home (despite Trevor trying to talk me
into using Debian ^_^)

I've also recommended it to a friend at work who is just trying out linux
for the first time.  The one thing that got me about Redhat was the lack 
of nice gui config tools preinstalled.  Mdk has that covered with MCC.   

Tho I have to admit the first thing I installed was gcc-3.1 followed by   
mplayer ^_^; 

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James Budworth
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