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Friday, September 13, 2002

It's ... alive!
So I just installed Red Hat "Null" (which is the third beta release of what will eventually be called Red Hat 8) and... my god. This release is simply beautiful, with an artfully designed GNOME desktop and setup application that rival Windows XP, and a bunch of user interface refinements that make this a major improvement. Pop in an audio CD and the GNOME CD Player starts up (heck, the fact that audio works at all is amazing). Plug in a digital camera and... well, nothing happens. But if you run the Digital Camera Tool (gtkam) and tell it what kind of camera you have, it works! It actually freaking works. Amazing. One minus on the Fujitsu laptop I'm currently testing is that going into whatever power management is on there causes the screen to be garbled when you come out, but that's probably my fault, I'll test it on other machines. And though the system fonts are simply gorgeous, they look crappy where you really need them, in Evolution (email), Mozilla (Web browsing) and OpenOffice.org (word processing). My, my, my though. This thing is looking good.

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