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New Red Hat Beta: LIMBO
joyoflinux writes: "Red Hat has released a beta version of its distribution, called LIMBO. It includes the latest desktop technology, gcc 3.1, Mozilla 1.0+, OpenOffice 1.0, and much more. You can download it here or use a mirror. Submit bugs here." Here's the announcement.
Unfortunatly, RH needs to wait for another broken version of GCC to come out, to base 8.0 on... so don't hold your breath
"Limbo" means it'll actually never come out. ;-)
I hope they change some more stuff besides Gnome, Apache, and GCC to justify a point-oh.
It's fairly likely they will look back at their earlier x.0 releases:
4.0: First time RH released for three different architectures (x86, SPARC, Alpha) - SPARC/Alpha didn't really work until 4.2
5.0: First major distribution to use glibc -locales were completely broken, lots of stuff didn't compile properly
6.0: Moved to 2.2 kernel series - heaps of security problems
7.0: Moved to 2.4 kernel series and glibc 2.2 - yet more security problems, major bug in release version
So hopefully they'll have something all sparkling new and totally broken in 8.0 to keep up the tradition.
For those people who are moaning about 5 disks, all you really need is the net install disk image, which conveniently fits on a 1.44 floppy. Then you can spend 4 hours downloading the beast, 3 hours configuring, 2 hours cursing, then reboot and continue playing MoH:AA on the other system which we wont mention ;-)
Revolution = Evolution
How could they!?! Where can I find the source for it. Really now, it's quite fun squashing Bill before his OS gets on my network. Level 21 has been my best for the few times I've played.
"Limbo" means it'll actually never come out. ;-)
No, that would be "Woody".
Since the Limbo is also a dance, I bet that the next Red Hat release will be codenamed something like Mambo or (dare I say it) Macarena? ;-)
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