On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 10:45, Ben Lutgens wrote: > On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 09:53, Dan Steeves wrote: > > Can you tell me what you think of 8.0 so far? I am new to Linux, just > > installed 7.3 as my first Linux a couple weeks ago. I'm still learning and > > playing at this point. I have read that the 8.0 desktop upset some people for > > not being "open" enough. What are the pros and cons of upgrading right away to > > 8 for a newbie? > Pro: It's the most newbie-friendly Red Hat release ever. Con: Red Hat 7.3 is stable and popular, so if you have questions and are running that release, there'll be more people who can answer them than with the new 8.0 version. That'll only be true for a limited time, though :) <snippage> > Compiling seems to work fine for me as well and there was > absolutely no tinkering with my hardware at all (except hardware > accelerated X on my nvidia cards which was trivial). The latest nvidia drivers worked for me also, with the standard source RPM rebuild-reinstall. Amazingly, VMware 3.2 worked! It complained a bit about gcc version 3 but compiled and installed its modules,and is running fine. -- Carl Patten