Red Hat 7.2 B2 comments

[Scott Prive]

For those in the audience interested in "desktop Linux", the new RedHat 7.4 is surprisingly good. In the past, RedHat included stale GNOME files (at least until 7.3), and broken KDE installations, all of which made for a "good enough" desktop (yeah, I know Mandrake and SuSE target the desktop, RH doesn't).
 
I'll spare reprinting the release notes, and I know 7.4B3 is out but this version has been stable enough that I've put off upgrading until the release. GNOME2.0 is a huge improvement: it's snappier, cleaner, more predictable/consistent, and helpful without getting in the way. 
 
The icons are all renamed to indicate the purpose -- no more gSomething -- which for an existing user will require some adjustment but I'm willing to bet it shortens the learning curve.
 
Netscape is gone (yay), and OpenOffice is the default office suite.
 
Worth checking out if you'd previously dismissed RH as a desktop. It's worth grabbing the "beta", just to see the improvements to GTK and GNOME2.0.
 
-Scott
 
 
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