[lug] redhat beta musings

j davis davis_compz at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 5 23:58:39 MDT 2002


quick dumb question. no mp3 support? wha..? This is just for beta right?

thanks
jd

>From: Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com>
>Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
>Subject: [lug] redhat beta musings
>Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 15:51:36 -0600
>
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>Some of us in the #colug irc channel on irc.community.tummy.com were
>talking about the redhat beta. I have been using it on my laptop for a
>while now, so I mentioned a few things that are in it...
>
>usermode linux kernel... so you can run linux under linux out of the box.
>  /etc/httpd/conf.d/ so you don't have to mod httpd.conf anymore
>new gtk2 config tools...
>LVM support.
>mediacheck on all installs... nfs/ftp/etc...it will ask for mediacheckby 
>default
>the installer is in gtk2 now ... looks a lot nicer.
>new comps file format in xml.
>gnome 2.0, kde3...
>no xfree 3.3.6 anymore, all 4.2.x now
>gcc 3.2
>python from this century. ;)
>postfix
>no netscape... only mozilla now.
>no mp3 support.
>rpm now checks sigs on all packages it installs by default... so it will 
>warn you if it's not signed or doesn't have the key.
>they moved all the rpm building stuff into 'rpmbuild'...
>rpm can now also suggest packages that you need to meet depends...
>privoxy (filtering web proxy)... it's pretty nice...
>
>Anyone else out there using it?
>Anything to add to the list?
>
>kevin
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thanks,
jd

jd at taproot.bz
http://www.taproot.bz

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