[ale] RedHat 8.0 praise

Matty matty91 at bellsouth.net
Mon Dec 2 17:06:43 EST 2002


After careful evaluation, I used the RPMs at the following site:

http://www.gurulabs.com/downloads.html

- Ryan

On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 15:36, Fulton Green wrote:
> I guess RH didn't want to get into the newly-clouded MP3 patent royalty
> issues.
> 
> OTOH, FreshRPMs.net has some MP3 add-on packages, as well as some workable
> DVD software, specifically compiled for RH8.
> 
> But I wonder ... couldn't RH have rebundled the MP3 stuff with the shrink-
> wrapped version (i.e., the one that comes with the binary-only Java distro)?
> 
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 03:21:48PM -0500, Vernard Martin wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 15:08, Matthew Brown wrote:
> > > Eric Anderson talked me into getting RH 8.0 and loading it.  Wow!  This
> > > is really nice stuff.  The UI is very unified, clean and understandable,
> > > for the first time I think.  We have achieved desktop readiness - now
> > > for those droves of end-user apps!
> > 
> > while i did like RedHat 8.0's cleaned up interface, I was more than a
> > bit annoyed that they removed mp3 support from the applications.
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