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I've just completed an install of Red Hat 9, and I'm still trying to pick my jaw up off the floor. It's great, looks really, really good. The upgrade was painless, it remembered all my configurations and I was back up and running in less than an hour and a half. I strongly recommend the upgrade or install for those who are reluctant to jump on the new OS. It's really kick ass and it gets five starts from me. Lots of new tools to play.
PuRe
Yep, I myself installed Redhat9 the other day and I am also quite pleased with it.
Although there does not appear to be that many noticeable changes from redhat8 (which I had been using).
It picked up all my hardware and settings during the install with no troubles at all. The only thing I had to sort out was my nvidia card, Which required a simple trip to nvidias website to pick up the new drivers for redhat 9
Redhat have continued there policy of not building in any mp3 support which they had in 8. This is due to copyright issues, although getting and installing your own mp3 decoder is a simple task.
I think that Redhat 9 is a briliant choice for new linux users to learn and use.
I am currently writing a review of Redhat 9, which I will post here once I have finshed
I have included a screenshot of my current redhat 9 desktop for now :cool:
I am writing up a lengthy review which I will post shortly, but my experience hasn't been so glowing. :(
Watch the reviews forum.....
I know they started offering it for their paying customers, but I haven't seen RH9 on the public FTP site or the mirrors yet. Does anyone know when RH9 is supposed to be available to the general public?
Okies... you do that and I'll write a tutorial on Suse 8.1 Pro which is much more stable than RH 8.something, comes with mp3-support and all the goodies, and did I mention it's much more stable already? RH 7.3 rocks, RH 8 blows... just mho.
OK, my review is up, but apparently Reviews is one of the forums that got yanked from the front page. I wonder why....
Anyway, it's here.
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I am with Negative, I like RH 7.3 then 8 or 9 ..dunno why RH 7.3 still champ for me...
Cheers
Does anyone know if red hat 9 supports the audigy soundcard, I know suse 8.2 will
I'll be posting a link to the RH9 ISO's on my server for those interested. I'll have it up shortly, check back here for the link.
PuRe
Yeah it all sounds good does anyone have any info on where to get it if they do I would be highly thankful
Yeah it all sounds good does anyone have any info on where to get it if they do I would be highly thankful. also I would like to know if it is possible to run redhat9 in combination with linux and how much ram it uses as I am running an old i386 with 12mb of ram but I do have 4 slots of memory so i should be able to upgrade it if anyone has any info i would very thankful thanks for your time
Here's RedHat 8.0 and 9.0 ISOs on a decent server.
http://linux.cem.itesm.mx/isos/
The offical release for non redhat network paying users is this coming Monday(April7th) Although it has been lecked to a number of sites.
I'm still under RedHat 7.3, it works fine. I think I will try RedHat 9 soon, but I don't understand why they have released a major new version only some few months after the 8 version. Did they got too many problems with it (I didn't heard of such a thing), or did they want to make their marketing strategy more agressive?
KC
I dunno. However, it seems Linux distros tend to get new versions a lot quicker than it's propritary conterparts, which is a good thing I suppose. However, I have never tried RedHat9, but Slackware 9 is sweet :DQuote:
I don't understand why they have released a major new version only some few months after the 8 version.
eWeek has an article explaining RH's new distribution release strategy. Read it at eWeek (link is to the article).
Basically it sounds like they are splitting distribution releases between "Enterprise" (Less frequent releases, more stable) and "General Purpose" (more traditional frequent releases, more new features, less stable).
Sounds good to me. I'm looking forward to taking a peek at 9.0.
I don't know if that's a good strategy. When you think about it what do we remember the most about OSes? All their good features or the bad? Microsoft still has a reputation of "plug'n'pray" even though they've improved it vastly. The reputation of not being able to have an OS last longer than 24 hours is one that carries from Win95.Quote:
Originally posted here by amazingzarkon
eWeek has an article explaining RH's new distribution release strategy. Read it at eWeek (link is to the article).
Basically it sounds like they are splitting distribution releases between "Enterprise" (Less frequent releases, more stable) and "General Purpose" (more traditional frequent releases, more new features, less stable).
Sounds good to me. I'm looking forward to taking a peek at 9.0.
Releasing more often with less stability won't help the market, especially if the people that end up with the Linux are new users. They're going to think that Linux sucks and go back to MS. I dunno. IMHO, I don't think it's a good strategy.
It seems their decisions are profit and marketing driven more than practical or logical.Quote:
Releasing more often with less stability won't help the market, especially if the people that end up with the Linux are new users. They're going to think that Linux sucks and go back to MS. I dunno. IMHO, I don't think it's a good strategy.
I have heard a couple different rumors regarding the quick release of RH9. One was that they wanted the version number to match or exceed the competition. If SuSE has a a 10.0 or Mandrake has an 11.0 then Redhat would be perceived as being behind by having 8.0 even if 8.0 was released after the other two.
I also think that Microsoft does a lot of the same. Do they make upgrades to the kernel itself and fundamentally alter the operating system with each release? Sometimes. But it seems that they could just release updates, patches, hotfixes and service packs to keep the operating system current, stable and secure without renaming and repackaging it and displacing many of their customers.
But, when the gas runs out of the marketing campaign for the previous version, what else is left to do but rename and repackage it so you have something new to blow your horn about?
I have to agree that its not a good strategy and seems counter to the goal of marketing. Many companies are still using Windows NT because they were waiting for Windows 2000 to be proven and stable before investing in it. Before they could get there, they came out with XP and now .NET / 2003. Most companies don't like to bet the farm on new, unproven technology and Microsoft shoots themselves in the foot by coming out with new versions faster than the old one can establish itself.
You've got a great point there tonybradley, microsoft does release their operating systems too quickly. By the time they got a good or half way decent thing going, it's no longer supported, or out of date. Seems to me their just renaming and dressing up the same old crap. Microsoft makes releases of new software, just to sell and make bling bling ($$$$), where and this is my own opinion, in the *nix community, I don't believe that their releases have anything to do much in the way of marketing and version number garbage, I feel that when a new release is out, it's to satisfy the needs/wants of the community of users. The *nix community I feel, is a group that is highly technical and prefers to be on the cutting edge of technology, we demand more stability, more reliablity, more flexablility and security from our operating systems. I guess the reason alot of that is, is because we have to depend on these operating systems, our jobs depend on them and many people lives are affected by them without their even knowing. Wow, ok, this thread has drifted a little. Let's please get back to the topic of how cool Red Hat 9 is, : ) I'm still working on getting those ISO's for those interested.
As promised, here is a link to the Red Hat 9 ISO's:
ftp://65.41.9.136/pub/Mp3s/RedHat9/
I'll keep these ISO's on the server for two days exactly, after that, you should be able to get your free downloads from Red Hat or a mirror with big bandwidth. My bandwidth is pretty decent, just hope it doesn't get bogged down with this post. Oh well. : )
PuRe
I agree with tony, they should stop the version number thing and start assigning codenames instead
I don't think they care much about the needs/wants of the community of *nix users these days as PuReExcTacy says, now is about marketing and going mainstream
New versions are less stable than the ones released when linux was not so popular