R H ver 8.0

Matthew J. Brodeur mbrodeur at NextTime.com
Sun Sep 29 01:04:57 EDT 2002


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On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Paul Courchene wrote:

> What wonderful things are slated for RH 8.0 ?

   Selections from the release notes that I _definately_ didn't download 
from a mirror site that leaked the distro early:

* A new installation type called Personal Desktop is available
  Workstation installation type has been redesigned for ... software 
  development or system administration
* It is now possible to specify the boot order of your drives (during 
  installation)
* The installation program automatically configures a USB mouse ... 
  whenever a USB mouse is inserted, it will be functional
* It is now possible to install from an FireWire(TM) CD-ROM
* Logical Volume Management (LVM) configuration is now available during 
  installation
* The OpenOffice.org office suite is now included
* Due to patent licensing ... mp3 support has been removed
* Red Hat Linux now uses Xft for fonts
* GNOME 2.0 is now included and contains ... anti-aliased fonts
* XFree86 3.3.6 video hardware support has now been removed
* GCC has been updated to version 3.2
* glibc has been updated to version 2.3
* Perl has been updated to version 5.8
* Apache HTTP server has been updated to version 2.0
* The Netscape(TM) Web browser has been removed
* RPM will suggest package(s) that will satisfy unresolved dependencies
* contains the following new configuration and system tools: log viewer, 
  nfs config, x config, sound card config, language selection, package 
  management

   These are just the points that I've actually experienced during the
beta testing.  There are a lot of other changes, for better or worse.  
Overall it looks very nice based on the late stages of the beta cycle.
   The official release is (according to almost every source) 30 Sep, or 
in about 23 hours.


- -- 
     -Matt

Time is just an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
	-Ford Prefect
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