[KLUG Members] Re: Upgrade to Red Hat 8.0 opinions wanted

[Bryan J. Smith]

Quoting adam@morrison-ind.com:
> When it does you should be able to upgrade.  Currently I think RedHat is
> a little farther along the GNOME curve than Ximian (although I'm *certain*
> Ximian 2.0 will herald spectacular things).

Just who do you think maintains most of Gnome?  ;-P

Just because Ximian's "release" Gnome doesn't mean they don't have a 2.0 already
out.  They are just still labelling it a "Developer's Release," because many
components have still not moved their codebase to 2.0.

RedHat just decided to go ahead and move to Gnome 2.0, despite things missing
and/or incomplete.  It's not a bad move for a .0 RedHat release.

> It depends.  I'd recommend, if you do it, you wipe and re-install rh8.0
> in order to switch to LVM.  And the rh8 upgrade can get churlish about the
> presence of so many third part packages (Ximian).
> My impression of rh8 (which is GNOME 2, where Ximian is GNOME 1.4)

Again ... Ximian _Release_ is 1.4.  Ximian _Developer_ is 2.0.

> is that the UI is much more polished,  I like the theme, and the menus
> are arranged in a much more user friendly manner.  They really spent
> time getting the font config just right and the list of supported
> printers is excellent.

That's because RedHat controls all the packages, and RedHat finally got its "act
together" and properly addressed the desktop IMHO.

Ximian only "bundles" their packages for RedHat 6.x/7.x, so they could only work
with what they had.  Now that RedHat 8.0 is out, Ximian for RedHat 8.0 will
probably be improved as well.

> They've button together several things that I've cobbled together
> with the Ximian development snapshots (GNOME 2). 

Ahhh, now you're getting it.  ;-P

Ximian has released several "updates" to their Developer versions.

> It remains to be seen if I remove Open Office, and put in Star Office,
> if the integration will remain intact.

Open/StarOffice doesn't use GTK+/Gnome, so you should have 0 issues.

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