[ale] RH Upgrade

[Pete Hardie]

aaron wrote:
> On Monday 05 May 2003 13:56, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> 
>>I know I might have asked this before, but I want to go from 7.3 -> 8.0
>>via an upgrade process.  Is this a crazy idea.
> 
> 
> If you are using the system as a desktop / workstation, my opinion is that RH 
> 7.3-->8.0 is not a good move. From what I've observed, one loses a lot of 
> easy access to window manager choices and other controls over the GUI 
> environment. I'm running 7.3 with Gnome/Sawfish because I like the way it 
> works and I've spent considerable time configuring it to be what I like. It 
> is my understanding that updating to 8.0 would mean a lot of work and hassle 
> trying to recreate what I have now.

And there are some things you can no longer get - I was quite used to the 
ability to move a window across workspaces - so a window that was 'taller' than 
my workspace would extend into the one below.  This vanished in RH8, dammit.


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