Hello,
I too feel that Psyche has changed significantly in look and use, from 7.3.
It took several days to get a gui rpm manager that gave me info and
feed-back about what was really on my system. I don't know about the
reasons why kpackage has disappeared, but I do believe that many people miss
it. The crashing/hanging/slow rpm -ivhUe or what ever else you may send its
way is a real pain. The whole system depends on reliable file management
and installs. Now going from tarballs of sources has become more
convienient- at least I don't have consoles locking up constantly.
I'm kind of a middle-level user. I edit the iptables file directly, same
with squid, and grub. I prefer KDE to gnome (even though it loads slowly
with a twin 2000+ MP system), so more editing of files for desktop and
display manager were needed. Forget the double-click, talk about going
backwards...
Open Office is great, and so is the cups driver list and setup. The new
icons and look are nice, I'm using a mix of themes...
The setup/install must be going ok for most people and that's good. The
font managment is great, but people were too busy reading about the glitzy
changes to realize that some major system-wide enhancemnts had taken place.
Has anyone realized that you don't need to make a specially edited .xstartup
file for s VNC session (at least I haven't needed to)? Now, that is cool...
I have a server box at work with 120 workstations passing all of there
internet requests through it using squid, dansgaurdian, and adzapping ( with
webmin as a test :-) ) and it is just humming away.
I have a scanner, a digital camera, and a lan by cups laser printer hanging
on the my RH8.0 box and they all are great, and were easy to install. The
lm_sensors worked first time out with gkrellm. DVD playing and ripping all
work too with little effort, thanks to freshrpms...
I have some major time when things are all added up in regards to having an
extreemly usable, but it has been worth it.
I'm stick'in with RH8.0, no hesitation here.
Way-to-go Redhat for a great system.
Jim
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