Red Hat 8 a major step...
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on September 26, 2002 at 1:51:18 AM
In which direction though? It unites KDE and Gnome, but that isn't really a good thing. They also took out MP3 playing. Of course people have already written fixes for that.
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Red Hat 8 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.
But users who want to play digital music MP3 files will need to look beyond Red Hat, which removed software to play files in that audio format because of patent-license issues.
Bluecurve is Red Hat's attempt to make the KDE and Gnome interfaces look the same, bridging a divide in the Linux universe, said Erik Troan, Red Hat's director of product marketing, in an interview Wednesday.