Re: early review of RH 9 (Shrike)
"William Hooper" <[email protected]>
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Elton Woo said: > On Tuesday 25 March 2003 19:16, Audioslave - 7M3 - Live wrote: >> Charles Griffin wrote: >> > OSNews apparently received an early copy of RH 9 >> > (called "Shrike") for review. >> > >> > Check it out here: >> > http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3119 >> > >> > Regards, >> > Charles > > >> Thanks for the link to the article. It sounds like the coverage was >> fairly in-line with my experiences with this beta. >> >> The mozilla phone calls make me wonder, for those that plan on >> upgrading only. I guess since it doesn't work well. They might be >> better off with the 1.3 or later browser versions. >> >> Jim > > I must say that I'm a rather disappointed the the status quo WRT MP3 > support in Red Hat 9 remains the same. Considering that both Mandrake > and SUSe are releasing their next versions with MP3 support in them... > (... unless I'm seriously mistaken about this!). This has been commented to death. Red Hat has explained their reasons: http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_80mm.html I don't see the MP3 situation changing, hence don't expect MP3 support in Red Hat. And for the record I would like to thank Red Hat for standing by the concept of Open Source by not shipping/licensing things that violate the spirit of Open Source. [snip] > QUESTION: Does this mean that any serious challenge to the Wintel > desktop will be only forthcoming from Europe? True, "Lindows" might be > making some kind of dent, but only in parts of the USA. I am yet to see > a Lindows box at any local brangh of Walmart (even though those stores > are sprouting in these parts like mushrooms after a heavy rainfall... Unless a major name (and no Wal-Mart isn't) starts shipping a Linux Distro and manages to get a number of other component OEMs on board you have a chicken and egg problem. As far as what country they come from, who cares? > QUESTION: Release notes (RH 9)? I don't think (IMVHO) that the > release notes from Phoebe3 would apply, since there were so many > unresolved questions and show-stoppers... [snip] You will see the release notes next week with everyone else (or the week after if you aren't a RHN subscriber and no one posts them between now and then). -- William Hooper -- Phoebe-list mailing list [email protected] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list