Same for me. However you can't stay at 7.3 forever with all the changes with gcc going on. So a bit of enlightment from RH's side about where the distro is heading would ease my headache. I believe that RH should generate a new sub-Personal distro from the current 8.0 tree and call it migration or whatever. And then please offer a set of RPMs to bring it back to the well-known standards base we knew. I mean there is not much choice in the real pro distros here. From my point of view Debian is the only one coming close. But these are just my ? 0,02. Bernd Anthony Abby wrote: >No, I think you're pretty much right on, but why >switch distros? Why not just retrograde back to >7.3, upgrade the kernel to the latest stable, and >run up2date? > >I love KDE so I had a hige problem with what RH >did in 8 and thought it was going to be too much >work to restore a true KDE environment, so I >reinstalled 7.3 last weekend. 7.3 with updated >kernels and updated packages is where I'll remain. > >Anthony > > >>Fair enough. Is there a date for when the >> >facility will make it into an > >>update? So far it seems that RedHat has tried to >> >make 8.0 appeal to > >>Windows users by removing choices and flexibility >> >(no gnorpm, no > >>kpackage, no ability to switch from one >> >GNOME-compatible window manager > >>to another using a GUI as in the past). Am I >> >misjudging RH 8.0 in this > >>respect? (I'd like to use it on the rest of my >> >Linux boxes, but this is > >>sufficiently irritating that I am starting to >> >think of switching > >>distributions.) >> >> > > >
