[ale] RH Upgrade

[aaron]

On Tuesday 06 May 2003 08:08, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Valid points.  I prefer KDE over Gnome but still run Evolution because
> KDE's kmail is not very good.  Does RH9 suffer the same problems?
> Chris

I haven't explored RH9 personally, but the bits I've read suggest that it 
continues down the same [sorry] GUI path as 8.0. I think all the shortcomings 
stem from the RH effort to crunch Gnome and KDE into a clone minded, locked 
down "Trade Mark" look and feel conglomeration.  The result is that they now 
have their semi-proprietary metash*ty bluntcurve desktop that (IMO) is as 
indistinctive, undifferentiated, limiting, inflexible and disfunctional as 
the Lowest Common Denominator UI from Redmond.

I hope that Mandrake continues to avoid those "KnomEDGe" limitations past 9.0 
(which is running great as my daughter's desktop system), but someone who has 
looked at 9.1 tells me that they, too, may be devolving into a clone groan 
user environment. That would be sad but not surprising since they build a lot 
on the RH core.

...and Kmail has been doing fine for my needs since RH7.0, though I do need to 
look at Evolution's evolution since the time I made that choice. :-)

peace
aaron

> On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 20:01, aaron wrote:
> > On Monday 05 May 2003 13:56, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > > I know I might have asked this before, but I want to go from 7.3 -> 8.0
> > > via an upgrade process.  Is this a crazy idea.
> > 
> > If you are using the system as a desktop / workstation, my opinion is that 
RH 
> > 7.3-->8.0 is not a good move. From what I've observed, one loses a lot of 
> > easy access to window manager choices and other controls over the GUI 
> > environment. I'm running 7.3 with Gnome/Sawfish because I like the way it 
> > works and I've spent considerable time configuring it to be what I like. 
It 
> > is my understanding that updating to 8.0 would mean a lot of work and 
hassle 
> > trying to recreate what I have now.
> > 
> > RH 7.3 is current enough that I'm in no hurry to jump back onto the 
bleeding 
> > edge. Unless RH changes their GUI directions, my next "update" will 
probably 
> > be a switch to Mandrake next year.
> > 
> > 
> > peace
> > aaron
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