hi all,
courtesy of some kind folks (Suseelan B Sarin <ee98291@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
and Saurabh Jain <ee98290@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>), redhat 8.0 is now
available on ftp.iitm.ac.in; instead of upgrading to 'gnu/linux 3.0', i
decided to upgrade from redhat 7.3 to 8.0; upgrade proceeded smoothly -
but took way too long (do i hear bloatware?). on my home machine which is
a p3-800 with 192mb ram, it took two hours (i have installed a fair amount
of junk on this machine). even on my p4-1.7ghz-256mb, it took well over an
hour. the binaries are distributed over 3 cd's and chances are you will
need all three for an install. some new packages that caught my eye
include openoffice 1.0.1, squirrelmail and a set of gui config tools for
many system services like bind, httpd, firewall etc. (have not tried any
of these yet). the new redhat desktop has a nice look and feel. gcc is now
the officially stable version 3.2 which was released in august(?). overall
opinion - look and feel is nice, but feels bloated. like in the windows
world, unless you have a faster machine with more ram, you will probably
not be too happy with this upgrade.
sriram
