Red Hat Linux 9 Release And Interview

Gentu writes "Red Hat Linux 9 has been released to the official mirrors, brace for impact! Additionally, OSNews features an interview with Red Hat Linux's manager, Matt Wilson and they discuss everything from mp3/dvd playback, to Randr, dependancy policies and more." Also on the Red Hat front, DdJ writes "So, I noticed that Red Hat's stock price jumped up a bit this morning, and checked the news to find out why. It turns out they've released a new portal product and a new CMS product. Both appear to be based on Java/Tomcat, which would mean it's not Zope-based or Zend-based. But, they're supposedly open source. Anyone have any further info on this stuff yet?" Update: 04/08 05:24 GMT by T : Don't forget that the new Red Hat release is available through BitTorrent, too.

Comments

Zope?

[The AtomicPunk]

So what, because it's not Zope based, it can't be open source? I don't follow your flippant remark at the end.

That's All Nice and Dandy, But...

[Jack Comics]

Too bad I couldn't get the bloody thing to work. I was finally convinced on giving Red Hat Linux a try, so I went so far as to buy a Red Hat Network subscription last week just so I could go ahead and download and burn Red Hat 9. Once that was done, I went ahead and started installing Red Hat 9. Once it reached the part fairly early on where the GUI installer was to take over, my monitor went blank, and it displayed an error message saying the video signal was out of range. I rebooted, and tried installing again, only to have the same thing happen all over again. No screen, no sound, no nothing. It was like my computer wasn't even on, but it was.

So I said, "Screw this," and went back and re-installed LindowsOS 3 instead, which, irony of all ironies, worked. I had video, I had sound, I had everything. Kinda ironic that the Linux distribution everyone loves to hate, Lindows, worked right out of the box when Red Hat 9 failed miserably. And there's nothing really special about my computer either... it's an AMD XP 2000+, 1 gigabyte of DDR-333 RAM, MSI nVidia GeForce 4 Ti 4200 video card with 64 megabytes of DDR Video RAM, SoundBlaster Audigy Platinum sound card, two 80 gigabyte Western Digital IDE hard drives, and an 18" Sony LCD monitor.