New Red Hat Beta 373
Alkini writes "Red Hat just announced a new beta, codenamed Phoebe. Their highlight list includes Mozilla 1.2.1 with Xft antialiased fonts and glibc-2.3.1. The new beta can be downloaded from RH's FTP site or one of the mirrors."
Updated Mirror List (Score:4, Interesting)
http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/phoebe_mirrors.html [hawaii.edu]
I was hoping they would wait. (Score:4, Interesting)
I definitely understand that Red Hat has an affinity for Gnome, and that's fine for them, but for full compatibility you really need to install both Gnome and KDE so why not have the best KDE?
With Mandrake's newly returned cash crunch, Suse is looking like a strong contender on the distro front. However, don't forget Knoppix, the newest "distro".
8.1 will have to wait... (Score:5, Interesting)
Well, I think I will just wait. Sit back and watch the flack and see what people like/dislike and have trouble with before I go jumping into a new release. I got a lot of the stuff they are pushing already from Nyquists apt repository. At least the stuff I wanted like fontillus and gstreamer and such.
I think RH has come a long way so far and hope to see it progress even further.
My wish list is:
Larger set of server configuration tools like NIS server, client, LDAP server and client GUI apps. A network shares app that could handle samba and nfs would be really helpful (Ximian Setup Tools had one way back in the day).
Menu-editing for individual users.
Faster hardware check tool so bootup wouldn't hang there figuring out my configuration so long.
Graphical boot messages screen so my bootup can get slower
System-wide font installer like KDE has. Fontillus installs fonts drag and drop for users.
Package Management tied to apt freshrpms repository. I like the GUI package management tool but end up using synaptic because it is not tied to apt.
I can think of other things. Can you?
What things would you like to see?
Constructive stuff not just RH sucks garbage.
Re:I was hoping they would wait. (Score:3, Interesting)
2. Red Hat does not hold up a release unless they absolutely have to, otherwise they would never release. Making the call to go ahead without some key new development is always agonizing, but I don't think we can reasonably armchair quarterback those calls. I'd rather than both RH and KDE wait and make sure everything is ready for the public than get it all early in RH8.1 and find it's broken.
3. Just because they're releasing a beta now doesn't mean that it's all final. If KDE 3.1 releases in time and has no significant changes from 3.0.5 that prevent fast Q/A, perhaps RH will include it.
4. I don't think it's entirely fair to ascribe Red Hat's release timetable (which has been at a pretty steady pace of 6 months per release since the early days) to liking Gnome better than KDE.
Re:Good stuff (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:8.0 was great, but... (Score:3, Interesting)