red hat 8.0 ??!!

NGraphiX · 09-30-2002, 04:28 PM

when did redhat come out with version 8 ?!
any major improvements??

acid_kewpie · 09-30-2002, 04:47 PM

how about actaully reading the release notes??? http://redhat.com

NGraphiX · 09-30-2002, 04:55 PM

I did , I was just wondering if there was anything really new
other then their controversial new windows manager.
I also meant "any major improvements" as in did anyone try it ?

jetblackz · 09-30-2002, 05:06 PM

Nullified would be the code name. It combines both Gnome & KDE. The menu is on top right. Simple layout. Default theme is sweet. Curved corners.

The new thing I hear is one click to automagically install an RPM.

Amerist · 10-01-2002, 01:32 AM

oooh... Nice... ;-) I was getting a bit tired of dragging .rpm packages into the RPM manager window. :-P

born4linux · 10-01-2002, 03:18 AM

almost everything GUI. RHL 8.0 (aka psyche) is targetting the desktop market. This is the most 'point-n-click-n-point-n-click' release of RH.

- LVM setup option during installation (like setting up RAID)
- GNOME 2.0
- has the 'missing' wireless config tool for neat (or redhat-config-network)
- It has open office

zLinuxz · 10-01-2002, 04:30 AM

I would make this be rather... the most "point-n-click-n-point-n-click" realease of any Linux Distriobution up to date,

To bad it still comes with the 2.4.18 kernel...should've been 2.4.19.

figadiablo · 10-01-2002, 09:07 AM

Here is an article written by osnews:
http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1842

NGraphiX · 10-01-2002, 04:59 PM

dosn't look like you can download it any time soon.
all the servers that have it seem pretty packed.

rverlander · 10-01-2002, 06:47 PM

http://rpmfind.net has RH8.0 (www.rpmfind.net=down), anyone know the speeds?

rverlander · 10-01-2002, 06:48 PM

ISOS: http://rpmfind.net//linux/redhat/8.0/en/iso/i386/

NGraphiX · 10-02-2002, 12:34 PM

answering my own post:
ftp://linux.inrialpes.fr/linux/redhat/8.0/en/iso/i386/
pretty fast. the one at rpmfind wasn't that great

adam_boz · 10-02-2002, 02:31 PM

Here's a pretty cool way to get in to one/many of the mirrors:

Use ncftp (i don't know if other ones do this), and open up a bunch of terminals and do "ncftp ftp.bla.bla"... a different mirror on each one. If you can't get in, ncftp will retry every 10 seconds until you get in. Eventually, you'll get in to at LEAST one of them... then once you're in, just do "get psyche*" and you're set!

checksum · 10-02-2002, 04:07 PM

Do you really need to download all 5 ISO images? because that might take a long time.

checksum · 10-02-2002, 04:16 PM

I am currently running Mandrake 8.0 and I have samba installed on it so that I can share files with my XP machine. I am trying to replace it with this new version of Red Hat. Do you guys know if this version of Red HAt has samba in it or should I download it seperately? Should I save my samba.conf file and copy it over once I install Red Hat? Because I had such a hard time when I was trying to configure it with mandrake, and I dont want to go through it again.
Thanks.