"So I finally broke down and installed the 3rd beta of RedHat's upcoming release (called Phoebe). The install is smooth--I chose to install Workstation tools + just about everything else (Gnome 2.2, KDE 3.1, etc), sans the servers. I will focus mostly on what I didn't like, so let me get the stuff I liked out of the way.
"The interface didn't change much from RH8, but some important tweaks have been made. It is easier to shutdown the machine (more on that later). The non-default software now sits in the proper menus directories (where as before it was all in the Extra menu). Both Gnome & KDE looked pretty smooth, though RH will probably have to wait for Gnome 2.2.1 before shipping final product (there are some showstopper bugs in 2.2 [I've run across them] that have apparently been fixed in 2.2.1 according to bugzilla).
"Most importantly, for people who will be running the software on a workstation, rather than a server, this release has a lot of updated drivers, including for my beloved high-end audio card (drivers were unavailable in RH8.0)..."
