Star Red Hat Linux 9 - World's First Look at Shrike
Linked by Niall C. Brady on Tue 25th Mar 2003 16:51 UTC
Red Hat I installed Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike) to see what has changed between it and the previous major version of Red Hat (8.0). The article features some installation screenshots and of course some post-install screenshots showing Bluecurve in Gnome and KDE (more shots here), user experience and discussion of whether you should upgrade or not.
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>Do other distributions provide MP3 support?

Mandrake does.

>If so, why is it that only RedHat have removed it?

Because they are the most well known ones, they are bigger in US, so they could get sued easier than a company in France for example. ;)

>If it is illegal, and bound up in patent issues, how are other distributions still supporting it without getting into trouble?

It is Red Hat simply choosing be more responsible about it. They are now a big company, so they can't mess around with potential threats for lawsuits. So they deal with it that way. Personally, I would like to see them licensing mp3 usage.