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New Red Hat Beta

Posted by timothy on from the anticipate-smoothliness dept.

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."

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  1. Ah linux betas... by Exiler · · Score: 5, Funny

    The most unstable of the most stable of the stable desktop OSes... Wait I think I messed that up

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    Banaaaana!
  2. I'll wait for the next beta ... by burgburgburg · · Score: 2, Funny
    Monica.

    My servers were really slowed down when I tried the Ross, and the network kept crashing after I installed the Joey.

  3. Windows XP was great, except.... by Drakantus · · Score: 5, Funny

    -Lack of EXT3 filesystem support by default: Near-neccessary for Linux dual-booters

    -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

    -No MP3 encoding support in WMP

    -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.

    -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

    -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

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    I love going down to the elementary school, watching all the kids jump and shout, but they dont know I'm using blanks.
  4. How bout the next beta by crea5e · · Score: 2, Funny

    be called smelly cat. Red Hat Smelly Cat. Sure pheobe can make a charming lyric for it.