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New Red Hat Beta: LIMBO

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 3, 2002 @04:59PM from the to-prod-to-poke-to-torment dept.

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.

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Re:Code named software by BJH · 2002-07-03 17:18 · Score: 5, Interesting

See here for a page that goes into more detail than any sane person could possibly want about the Red Hat release names.
Re:Code named software by Russ+Steffen · 2002-07-03 17:21 · Score: 5, Interesting

All Red Hat code names so far have been connected by a double meaning. This page documents the connections found so far. The link between 'Valhalla' and 'Limbo' should be clear. The link between Valhalla and Skipjack hasn't been posted here yet, though ISTR that they are both islands.