Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 23rd Feb 2003 20:42 UTC
Red Hat is the undisputed commercial leader when it comes to Linux distros. A few years ago more distros were sharing the Linux market/userbase, but these days Red Hat has overcome its competitors in impressions, sales and popularity. Popularity doesn't always mean quality though (look at Windows9x for example), so after our world's first review of Red Hat 8.0 a few months ago, I wanted to check out the new product, Red Hat 8.1, destined to be released sometime in the next one or two months. I downloaded and installed the third beta of 8.1, codenamed Phoebe, and gave it a whirl. We will be featuring a full review when the final version becomes available, but here is a preliminary report on the current status, accompanied by three screenshots. Update: Added one more screenshot.
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NTFS is not in Redhat due to possible patent concerns I believe.
I'm not sure why MP3 support still isn't in there, if Thompson have made it clear free decoders are allowed, but they are very careful with legal things. Anyway, it's trivial to add.
Evolution is not really multithreaded afaik, it runs 2 processes that communicate via CORBA in the new gnome2 version anyway.
There will be other nice features too, like the gnome sound recorder can convert between various formats (once you have the right gst plugins installed), little things like that.
I seem to recall seeing bluecurve toolbar icons a while ago, they must have dropped them for this beta.