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Title: Red Hat Linux 8.0 released
Post by: JamesR on September 30, 2002, 07:07:46 AM

Arguably the first major restructuring of the Red Hat Linux interface since 6.0, Red Hat Linux 8 includes a new, unified interface, GNOME 2.0 to enable powerful interface features, integration with OpenOffice.org and Mozilla 1.0, and even a very Amiga/Mac-like Panel type called the Menu Panel (it sits at the top of the screen and even has a very Finder-like feature on the right). More info on Red Hat 8.0 is available at RedHat.com (http://www.redhat.com).

Title: Re: Red Hat Linux 8.0 released
Post by: Kronos on September 30, 2002, 07:31:30 AM

AmigaInc and partners ????


Or does anybody still believe in that 3 year old "partner-ship"  :-P

Title: Re: Red Hat Linux 8.0 released
Post by: System on September 30, 2002, 08:06:31 AM

There's a  Red Hat 8.0 review (http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1842) at OSNews.com by Eugenia.

P.S. Kronos, grow up.

Title: Re: Red Hat Linux 8.0 released
Post by: Argo on September 30, 2002, 08:21:15 AM

Maybe he's stuck in nevernever land.

Title: Re: Red Hat Linux 8.0 released
Post by: asian1 on September 30, 2002, 11:24:55 AM

There is something strange about RedHat Distro. They have distro for ALPHA CPU (HP), PowerPC 64 bit (IBM) and Mainframe (IBM), but there is NO distro for PowerPC 32 bit. Other Distro (SUSE, YD, Debian, Mandrake) have PowerPC 32 bit version, but RH just ignore the architecture.

However it is strange that RH staffs are involved in Linux PowerPC kernel development and the person who created GCC 3.2 for Altivec is working for RH.

Perhaps if AmigaOne is succesful, RH will release a Distro for it. If Amiga HW use the new Power4 CPU (Oct. 2002), perhaps the new CPU will be compatible with RH Distro.

Title: Re: Red Hat Linux 8.0 released
Post by: Hammer on September 30, 2002, 07:56:53 PM

Looks good, but what about the “out of the box” multimedia support?

PS; Australian PC Magazine November edition, will have Mandrake Linux 9.0(X86) on it’s cover discs (October 22nd release)....

Title: Re: Red Hat Linux 8.0 released
Post by: Tomas on October 01, 2002, 01:07:11 AM

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ooks good, but what about the “out of the box” multimedia support?

From what i read about in the osnews review of rh8.0, it pretty much didnt have any multimedia support at all, not even mp3 libaries.... lack of videoplayers also...

Title: Re: Red Hat Linux 8.0 released
Post by: System on October 01, 2002, 04:16:05 AM

afaik YD is Red Hat for ppc

Title: Re: Red Hat Linux 8.0 released
Post by: System on October 01, 2002, 07:54:57 AM

And have you seen what's on the applications CD? ;-)

http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/features/pl_appCD.html (http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/features/pl_appCD.html)

Title: Re: Red Hat Linux 8.0 released
Post by: Opi-Poi on October 01, 2002, 09:01:02 AM

@jd

Nice!:-)

I've got Mandrake 8.2.Just need a PC now.;-)

Title: Re: Red Hat Linux 8.0 released
Post by: whabang on October 01, 2002, 07:53:58 PM

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Apex Designs
Payback Demo
Gangster warfare with attitude and killer explosions

w00t!
Amiga is exporting games to other platforms again!
Hey, at least it's a start! :-D

Title: Re: Red Hat Linux 8.0 released
Post by: redrumloa on October 01, 2002, 11:08:10 PM

>>And have you seen what's on the applications CD?  


>Apex Designs
>Payback Demo
>Gangster warfare with attitude and killer explosions

WHOA! I didn't know a playable demo is out for Linux!