Warren,
Will other distro's have to follow suit in regards to mp3? Or is this
just an RH deal? Also, does this mean that the ogg vorbis format
could/should become the new standard? I would be interested to hear what
you think.
Jon
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 01:18, Warren Togami wrote:
> Sometime Monday (not exactly sure when) the 8.0 directory on mirrors
> worldwide will open for download. Red Hat 8.0 presents a significant
> upgrade in desktop Linux from Red Hat 7.3, even better than Mandrake 9.0 in
> some ways.
>
> Some of the nice new upgrades:
> Apache 2.0
> Gnome 2.0 (heavily modified)
> gcc 3.2
>
> Among some other notable improvements are the inclusion of SpamAssassin and
> SquirrelMail. This means that out-of-the-box Red Hat can give people their
> own personal fetchmail/procmail/spamassassin/imap/squirrelmail combo.
>
> Perhaps the only drawback is that the MP3 player plugins had to be removed
> for legal reasons. That's okay, because you can download easy to install
> packages from other places to restore this functionality in XMMS. The
> Freshrpms site has the xmms-mp3 plugin, DVD player and some other neat
> custom packages ready for Red Hat 8.0.
> http://freshrpms.net/
>
> I highly recommend reading the RELEASE-NOTES of Red Hat after the mirror
> opens up. It is very long and details the many improvements in many areas.
> I've been working on the betas for this release, and even I was surprised by
> the vast improvements made since the last beta.
>
>
> Download (mirrors open sometime Monday)
> ========
> ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/redhat/linux/8.0
> University of Hawaii Videl mirror (limit 10 connections)
>
> Oceanic mirror (limit 50 connections) is open only to Hawaii RoadRunner and
> Oceanic network customers. Unfortunately there seems to be some router
> setting severely limiting bandwidth at the moment, but I think Doug or Jeff
> will resolve this issue quickly.
> ftp://mplug.oceanic.com/mirrors/redhat/linux/8.0
>
> Internet2 Mirror, use this if you are on UH campus or another Internet2
> connected educational institution.
> http://redhat.dsi.internet2.edu/8.0
>
> Interational List of mirrors can be found here:
> http://freshrpms.net/mirrors/psyche.html
>
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