Redhat 8.0 (Psyche) is out! | comments?

[volt]

It's out people!

"Hang on to your hat!"
https://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html
http://freshrpms.net/mirrors/psyche.html

Note that XMMS is NOT included in this release because of patents and licenses. You can grab the patch for 8.0 at
http://www.gurulabs.com/downloads.html
You can use the xmms mp3 plugin, but you have to understand that you will be violating the GPL (who cares?) :D

Support for cards other than Nvidia's
http://dri.sourceforge.net/

<mharris> The Radeon 8500 is supported by the currently in development r200 branch of CVS.

...So any card up to 7500 is supported and 8500 is being worked on :)


You can chat with Mike Harris at card.freenode.net #redhat
(very interesting discussions there, so feel free to pop-in)

[Matthyahuw]

downloading...will install tonight probably...I'll let ya know...

[volt]

Heh, the md5's i got yesterday are identical to the ones of official release. :D

[Matthyahuw]

I installed it w/o a hitch, didn't customize or go thru it yet...had to run to my night class...
So far I like Bluecurve, and everything works that I've tried, sound, network, 2D @ 1600x1200, and all my mounts...
Gonna try Printer, scanner, and wine later this week..any one know of a good wine help site, or would like to share their wine config file? I get how to do the drives, but after that, I'm lost...

[volt]

Originally posted by Matthyahuw
I installed it w/o a hitch, didn't customize or go thru it yet...had to run to my night class...
So far I like Bluecurve, and everything works that I've tried, sound, network, 2D @ 1600x1200, and all my mounts...
Gonna try Printer, scanner, and wine later this week..any one know of a good wine help site, or would like to share their wine config file? I get how to do the drives, but after that, I'm lost...

Will do it as soon as I install my copy. I have to move everything from my windows partition to another drive so it might take me 2 days or so ;)

[netviper13]

Would you all recommend Redhat8 or Mandrake 9 for a first time user? I got my WD 120gb HDD in last weekend, and have a 20 gig partition with Linux's name on it, now I just need to decide which distro is the best.

[volt]

Originally posted by netviper13
Would you all recommend Redhat8 or Mandrake 9 for a first time user? I got my WD 120gb HDD in last weekend, and have a 20 gig partition with Linux's name on it, now I just need to decide which distro is the best.

Oh man, oh man....I chose Redhat over Mandrake :>

Matty, can you please post your XFree86 config file? thanks :)

[Matthyahuw]

Originally posted by volt
Matty, can you please post your XFree86 config file? thanks :) I'll do one better...I'll post utiel's file he has...that's who I learned to config my file from, he has some great remarks in it for the n00b:
http://perso.wanadoo.es/autiel/XF86Config

[volt]

allright thanks ;)
hmmm, my x windows wont even run in vesa mode!
grrr (geforce 4)

EDIT: ok, i got it working :D

[Matthyahuw]

I've got to play with it a while now, and it's pretty stable...and quite good.

The only thing I didn't like is some of the programs anaconda installed didn't show up in the start menu, like LICQ...but I just made a desktop shortcut, and it's all good!

[volt]

Originally posted by Matthyahuw
I've got to play with it a while now, and it's pretty stable...and quite good.

The only thing I didn't like is some of the programs anaconda installed didn't show up in the start menu, like LICQ...but I just made a desktop shortcut, and it's all good!

Yes they do show up.
It's in the "Extra" section under Internet :)

[Matthyahuw]

not for me...:(

[netviper13]

Anybody want to recommend a good mirror to download from? My download from the official Redhat server is crawling, and I can't seem to find any good mirrors.

[volt]

redhat.newaol.com port 21
path: /redhat/linux

over 200k/sec

happy downloading :>