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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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  2. 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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  3. 8.1 will have to wait... by ACK!! · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I just got my RH8 laptop singing with the new kernel and they go out and release a beta!

    Well, I think I will just wait. Sit back and watch the flack and see what people like/dislike and have trouble with before I go jumping into a new release. I got a lot of the stuff they are pushing already from Nyquists apt repository. At least the stuff I wanted like fontillus and gstreamer and such.

    I think RH has come a long way so far and hope to see it progress even further.

    My wish list is:

    Larger set of server configuration tools like NIS server, client, LDAP server and client GUI apps. A network shares app that could handle samba and nfs would be really helpful (Ximian Setup Tools had one way back in the day).

    Menu-editing for individual users.

    Faster hardware check tool so bootup wouldn't hang there figuring out my configuration so long.

    Graphical boot messages screen so my bootup can get slower :->.

    System-wide font installer like KDE has. Fontillus installs fonts drag and drop for users.

    Package Management tied to apt freshrpms repository. I like the GUI package management tool but end up using synaptic because it is not tied to apt.

    I can think of other things. Can you?

    What things would you like to see?

    Constructive stuff not just RH sucks garbage.

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  4. Put Redhat on Kazaaa and get it there by HanzoSan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Upload it to Kazaa so the rest of us can download it from you

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