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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(This is largely speculation)

1.) MP3's aren't there because of potential licensing/patent issues. This is not RedHat's fault, but the fault of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft's licensing. Use Ogg. Besides being an open format, it sounds better at comparable file sizes.

2.) DVD support isn't there because without the DeCSS libraries, DVD decoding is a pain under Xine (you need to get real CSS keys) and distributing any DeCSS code will get them into hot water under the DMCA in the USA

3.) NVidia drivers aren't there because they're not free (freedom) drivers. Just like how there's not any of the Shockwave stuff. It's free (beer), not free (freedom). And, this is the way it should be, which is why I stay away from NVidia cards - they don't want to be nice to the community, I won't be nice to their pocketbooks.