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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.
I am so disapointed! This release is nothing like I hoped it would be. It's sad that there is so little new stuff. Thank God that Suse is releasing 8.2 soon. At least they have made an effort to give something new. Redhat looks nice, but from a home user perspective I must say that nothing much has changed. No hotplug support, terrible scanner support, XSane 0.89 while Mandrake 9.1 has chosen 0.90 with updated libs so more scanners are covered.
I had high hopes for this release, but I can promise that Redhat has lost me! I will no more go for Redhat softwarel. Create something new and I will think about it.
Wishes for a new release: Graphical boot, instead of the boring old text based. Suse 8.2 has done this. Much better support for HW. Hot plug support. MPlayer included. There should be no reason why this is a problem for Redhat when a lot of other distributors are including it.
Is there a Dia plugin for RHEA applications called 'Dia-rhea'?
Red Hat, is that a brand of condoms?
--Drunk as in Beer