"Let's be honest--when Red Hat releases a new version of its
distribution, no one really expects it to fail miserably. Reviews
of such releases, while not exactly pro forma, have begun to take
on an air of 'oooh, look at the all the cool new features,' with
the occasional smattering of 'this feature did not work quite
right.'
"Every once in a while, you get a review from someone who has
got a bone to pick with Red Hat (or any other distro) and they take
the developers to task for some real flaw that may or may not be
important in the grand scheme.
"Red Hat 9 could be just another distro out of North Carolina
that rakes in these kinds of reviews, and I could be one of the
reviewers that does it. But as I have worked with Red Hat 9 over
the last few days, my initial impressions are that it might be a
disservice on my part to just toss out another such review. Because
as I use it to perform the multitude of tasks needed to run
LinuxPlanet and Linux Today, I find myself thinking that this
version of Red Hat has actually managed to almost become exactly
what Linux distributions should be.
