| Web leak of Linux lets Hat out of the bag [CNET] |
Sep. 26, 2002
An apparent web leak of Red Hat 8.0 unveiled the company's widely anticipated 'personal desktop' a week early reports Stephen Shankland for CNET. Shankland provides details . . .
" . . . adds a new 'personal desktop' installation option for more mainstream users . . . includes the OpenOffice software package, an open-source answer to Microsoft's popular Office package; Ximian's Evolution e-mail and calendar software; and Red Hat's new 'Bluecurve' desktop interface, a customization of the traditional KDE or Gnome interfaces. Red Hat 8 uses the Mozilla Web browser but no longer includes the Netscape browser . . . "
"Red Hat decided to modify the audio players so they can't play MP3 files to avoid the risk of legal challenges stemming from differences between the terms of MP3-related patent licenses and the General Public License (GPL) . . . days before the planned release of Red Hat 8, Dax Kelson of Linux training company Guru Labs wrote an update to Red Hat 8 that restores the MP3 abilities to the XMMS player . . . "
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