Kevin Kofler wrote:
John Summerfield <debian <at> herakles.homelinux.org> writes:
Where were you when NULL came out?
Do we really have to rehash RH8 here now? As I said, this history lesson is
entirely irrelevant to current Fedora.
It's the source of the so-called rumours, so it's relevant to my point.
(NULL and LIMBO were the RHL8 betas).
But if you really want to know: I actually went from RHL 7.3 straight to FC1.
At that point there had been lots of flames about Bluecurve, so I wasn't sure
what was awaiting me. I decided to just try it out, and liked it, to the point
where I'm still using it now in Fedora 7 and even ported it to Qt 4.
Obviously there were people who liked it, but there were lots who went
elsewhere when I did.
I installed it with KDE and Gnome, and found I had to look closely to
tell the difference.
I know what you're talking about there, I've seen the screenshots and to some
And that's my point.
extent it was still like that in FC1 (though these customizations were already
which goes to explain why it wasn't as bad as I remembered when I tried
(and used) FC3.
on their way back out, the similarity was higher in RHL 8 and 9). I don't
really see the problem there, it was just a matter of default settings. Mainly
just how the taskbar and menu were set up. That said, Red Hat quickly figured
out that this amount of consistency wasn't actually necessary because a desktop
is only running either GNOME or KDE on the same screen at the same time, so
they gradually removed those customizations in Fedora. The default settings for
both KDE and GNOME in Fedora 7 look like a lot more like the respective
upstream defaults than like each other.
When one is installing and using lots of systems, fixing them all
becomes tedious.
It was the immediate cause of my not upgrading past RHL 7.3, and a very
talented and all-round good gent, Bero, left RH over it. He was
responsible for KDE, he had his own website of extras for KDE (including
advocacy stuff),it was he who added DVD burning to cdrecord, and I think
it was he who made the first rescue disks.
It was sad to see Bero go indeed. He was doing a lot of stuff, he also did much
of the GCC 2.96 work (another endless source of flames, but in that case he was
and much misinformation from folks such as those at MySQL.
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Cheers
John
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