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New Red Hat Beta
Alkini writes "Red Hat just announced a new beta, codenamed Phoebe. Their highlight list includes Mozilla 1.2.1 with Xft antialiased fonts and glibc-2.3.1. The new beta can be downloaded from RH's FTP site or one of the mirrors."
I've noticed Redhat is getting too Microsofty for my likings. Linux was all about doing its own thing, going its own way. Redhat just seem hell-bent on making it as much like Windows, and just sliding it in beside them. Be interested to see what the latest build can bring.
You get SHOT for announcing new betas.
BETAS announce YOU!
-Lack of EXT3 filesystem support by default: Near-neccessary for Linux dual-booters
1 of 2 valid points.
-That silly "start" menu: you never quite know where software is going to turn up, some make shortcuts on the desktop and in the menu, other programs only in the menu, some don't create any shortcuts
MS doesn't pick where most stuff goes. RH does. RH's fault if the menu's don't make sense.
-No MP3 encoding support in WMP
2 of 2 valid points.
-DMA is off by default on CD-ROM drives. This is easily fixed through device manager, but for the average user, this is a hurdle to DVD playing and CD burning.
Hrm, both my DVD-ROM and my CD-R/CD-RW drive seem to be the correctly supported DMA mode by default in WinXP.
-No nVidia, ATI, S3, Creative Labs, Turtle Beach, AMD, Intel, 3Com, VIA, or Matrox drivers, except very limited (no openGL, poor directX) drivers for some older devices.
Uhh the default nVidia support for cards that existed at the time of release worked, but wern't super fast. ATI, S3, TB, Intel, 3COM and matrox I can't comment on. My VIA and AMD stuff workes just great ('cept for stuff released after XP). CL drivers for my live! were a bit lacking.
-These were all easily fixed if you knew what you were doing, but kept Windows XP out of the realm of being usable for average people.
Or not. TROLL!
Go fuck yourself.