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Red Hat Linux 7.3 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the download-da-distribution dept.

qurob was the first of many readers to submit that Red Hat 7.3 has been released. Press release doesn't contain any surprises, just lists a bunch of stuff thats included with the dist. (Evolution, Mozilla, Apache). So go find a mirror if you're a Red Hat runner. Update: 05/06 14:05 GMT by T : christooley helpfully points out this list of mirrors.

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  1. Oh brother... by Linux+Freak · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Just great, now my LAME Guide is even _MORE_ out of date. ;^)

    1. Re:Oh brother... by Linux+Freak · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Well sue me for not having had the time (YET) to update it. I do have a pre-release of the next version. Now I'll need to update it to 7.3, but one of these days...

      It's considered bad form to complain about volunteer efforts, btw. Maybe if you pay me the salary I am earning at my full-time job I could quit it and devote more time on things like LAME.

      By the way, a newbie guide written for Red Hat is considered "Off topic"? What moderator and what drug?

  2. Linux is dying! by essdodson · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    It is official; Netcraft confirms: Linux is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Linux community when IDC confirmed that Linux market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers> Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Linux has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Linux is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict Linux's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Linux because Linux is dying. Things are looking very bad for Linux. As many of us are already aware, Linux continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeLinux is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    OpenLinux leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenLinux. How many users of NetLinux are there? Let's see. The number of OpenLinux versus NetLinux posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetLinux users. Linux/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetLinux posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Linux/OS. A recent article put FreeLinux at about 80 percent of the Linux market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeLinux users. This is consistent with the number of FreeLinux Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeLinux went out of business and was taken over by LinuxI who sell another troubled OS. Now LinuxI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
    All major surveys show that Linux has steadily declined in market share. Linux is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Linux is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. Linux continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Linux is dead.

    Fact: Linux is dying


    Oh wait, nevermind
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    scott
  3. Re:Real Moron by Glanz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Real" morons love XP, the "Real Morons' OS".. . Now if you think this is flame bait, you are mistaken. You are living proof of my statement, ergo, it is merely a fact.

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    Rien n'est plus beau que le creux du 0.