We'd like to clarify a few of the facts around our new Red Carpet Express service.
Since we launched the Red Carpet service this past April, it has become immensely popular. In fact, usage of Red Carpet has grown over 500% since the service's inception, and we've had to scale our public server's network pipe accordingly. Today, hundreds of thousands of people use Red Carpet on a regular basis to keep their systems up to date. Almost since the day we launched it, we've had a number of users ask us to provide a subscription service to Red Carpet that would offer a higher level of bandwidth. That's what Red Carpet Express is.
Red Carpet Express is not a sign that we're backing away from our free Red Carpet service. As our userbase has grown, it has become harder for us to increase our available bandwidth -- and consequently our monthly colo bill -- to provide everyone with the fastest connection possible. And so, for the users who absolutely must have high speed all the time, there is Express. Red Carpet Express is made up of a new, dedicated network of machines located at major hubs, and doesn't cut into our free service at all. In fact, over the last few months, we have increased bandwidth to our free Red Carpet service dramatically as the userbase has grown.
Red Carpet Express is not a sign that we're backing away from our mirror network. We have a dedicated mirror coordinator who works with our over 40 mirror sites to make sure they have the latest content as quickly as possible. This isn't going to change with the launch of Red Carpet Express. In fact, I'd like to encourage those users of our free service to consider looking for a mirror site closer to them.
Anyway, we hope people give Express a shot. It's the perfect stocking stuffer!:-)
Ximian GNOME for Red Hat Linux 7.2 is out!
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Ximian GNOME for Red Hat Linux 7.2 has been released. Please don't follow the instructions in the article for removing Ximian GNOME, as that will break your rpm dependency tree pretty badly.
The recommended procedure for upgrading to Red Hat Linux 7.2 with Ximian GNOME is to perform the Red Hat upgrade, then immediately reinstall Ximian GNOME.
Our web site is a bit misleading regarding Debian Potato - I need to fix that. Our packages work fine with either the unstable (Woody) or frozen (Potato) distributions.
Yes, that title is leading to some confusion. There are actually two things being released at the same time. One is GNOME 1.2, the other is Preview 2 of the Helix GNOME Desktop. This release of the Helix GNOME Desktop includes GNOME 1.2.
As you said, we just re-package GNOME in an easily installable and updatable form.
The GPL does not keep you from doing this. You can charge as much as you want for software that you make available under the GPL. It doesn't require any extra clause.
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We'd like to clarify a few of the facts around our new Red Carpet Express service.
:-)
Since we launched the Red Carpet service this past April, it has become immensely popular. In fact, usage of Red Carpet has grown over 500% since the service's inception, and we've had to scale our public server's network pipe accordingly. Today, hundreds of thousands of people use Red Carpet on a regular basis to keep their systems up to date. Almost since the day we launched it, we've had a number of users ask us to provide a subscription service to Red Carpet that would offer a higher level of bandwidth. That's what Red Carpet Express is.
Red Carpet Express is not a sign that we're backing away from our free Red Carpet service. As our userbase has grown, it has become harder for us to increase our available bandwidth -- and consequently our monthly colo bill -- to provide everyone with the fastest connection possible. And so, for the users who absolutely must have high speed all the time, there is Express. Red Carpet Express is made up of a new, dedicated network of machines located at major hubs, and doesn't cut into our free service at all. In fact, over the last few months, we have increased bandwidth to our free Red Carpet service dramatically as the userbase has grown.
Red Carpet Express is not a sign that we're backing away from our mirror network. We have a dedicated mirror coordinator who works with our over 40 mirror sites to make sure they have the latest content as quickly as possible. This isn't going to change with the launch of Red Carpet Express. In fact, I'd like to encourage those users of our free service to consider looking for a mirror site closer to them.
Anyway, we hope people give Express a shot. It's the perfect stocking stuffer!
Ximian GNOME for Red Hat Linux 7.2 has been released. Please don't follow the instructions in the article for removing Ximian GNOME, as that will break your rpm dependency tree pretty badly.
The recommended procedure for upgrading to Red Hat Linux 7.2 with Ximian GNOME is to perform the Red Hat upgrade, then immediately reinstall Ximian GNOME.
lynx -source http://go-gnome.com/ |sh
The mirrors will pick it up shortly.
Share and enjoy,
The Ximian release team
Unfortunately, we haven't had time to build Slackware packages yet. It is on our list of things to support when we get the time.
For what it's worth, the Red Hat 6.2 RPMS seem to work fine with Slackware.
Peter
A patch was submitted to the Evolution developers' list yesterday which adds GPG support. Expect nice integration with GPG in an upcoming release.
Peter
Actually, I've made sure that these debs also work on Potato.
Peter
Yes, the plan is to put it into the distribution. I'm not sure how soon that will be, though. It will probably be in our next set of new packages.
Peter
We ran out of file descriptors on the main web server, and our scripts couldn't be opened. This is being fixed. Be gentle with us, Slashdot. :)
Peter
Our web site is a bit misleading regarding Debian Potato - I need to fix that. Our packages work fine with either the unstable (Woody) or frozen (Potato) distributions.
:)
You can just use our packages, if you want.
Peter
Yes, that title is leading to some confusion. There are actually two things being released at the same time. One is GNOME 1.2, the other is Preview 2 of the Helix GNOME Desktop. This release of the Helix GNOME Desktop includes GNOME 1.2.
As you said, we just re-package GNOME in an easily installable and updatable form.
Peter
Yes, I've been working on debs for a little while. You can see the status of my efforts at:
:)
http://primates.helixcode.com/~peter/
My time has lately been taken up with other issues related to this release, but the Debian packages are a high priority for me now.
It's unfortunate that you guys can't read our FAQ due to the Slashdotting.. It's one of the questions answered there.
Peter
The GPL does not keep you from doing this. You can charge as much as you want for software that you make available under the GPL.
It doesn't require any extra clause.
Only because you, the fascist Gimp Overlord, demanded it.