| 'World's first review' of Red Hat 8.0 [OSNews] |
Sep. 30, 2002
OSNews editor Eugenica Loli-Queru offers a detailed first look at Red Hat 8.0. Debuting amidst much speculation and controversy. the new Red Hat distro does not support the popular MP3 audio format and has a new UI . . .
"Red Hat still includes the Desktop Switcher application, so I momentarily switched to KDE 3.0.3. I think Red Hat has done a good job modifying a Qt theme to look similar to GTK+'s BlueCurve. Whoever said that Red Hat modified KDE to look like Gnome is wrong. The BlueCurve theme is not Gnome's either. Red Hat wrote it pretty much from scratch. So, KDE applications now looks similar to Gnome's, and Gnome's applications are looking similar to KDE's. This is a good thing . . . "
"there is no Java installed. No Macromedia Flash or Real Player either. And that brings me in the multimedia offerings of this distro. Or its lack there of. Red Hat 8 has to be the poorest multimedia-ready distro by default that I ever ran . . . there are no movie players on Psyche (except the limited Kaboodle which is not even installed by default). None. No XINE, no VLC, no XMovie, no NoATun, no nothing. I don't know what Red Hat means by saying that this is a 'business desktop', but I can tell you . . . modern offices and businesses need full multimedia capabilities by default on their desktop. And Red Hat fails to deliver these . . . "
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