Re: Red Hat 8 release: Monday

M A Young wrote:
> Tom Georgoulias wrote:
> 
>>Like Michael Young said, I doubt anyone was able to get the entire 
>>release installed before the site was closed.  I'd treat any comments 
>>about the new version (the complete release, not the latest beta with 
>>errata & development packages) with skepticism.
> 
>  However 2/3rds of the packages are unchanged from null+updates, (of the
> 700 odd packages on my null box only about 200 had different version
> numbers in the final version), so null will give you a pretty good idea,
> and I bet most of the differences are bug fixes rather than feature
> changes. I believe I have enough packages to update my machine to 8.0, and
> my User Mode Linux virtual machine is running a rather minial copy of 8.0
> (except for one package where I couldn't be bothered to resolve the
> dependencies). 

I got an offlist email from someone who was able to get the entire tree, 
so it was possible.  (you just had to be quick on the draw!  ;)

So, knowing that some folks *do* have the release, I have to ask this: 
Was the modem lights gnome panel applet fixed?  ;)


Tom