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[Erik Troan ] Red Hat Linux 4.8 (Thunderbird) BETA Release Available!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Wed Aug 27 19:01:49 1997
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From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 27 Aug 1997 19:01:33 -0400
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From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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Subject: Red Hat Linux 4.8 (Thunderbird) BETA Release Available!
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First a dead painter, now an out-of-production car?
The fine tradition of Red Hat Beta releases continues with the release of
Red Hat Thunderbird (tbird for short). It's now available on ftp.redhat.com
in /pub/redhat/tbird, and includes exciting new features (untested software)
for your enjoyment (confusion). This release is *guaranteed* to support more
hardware than the first Red Hat beta release (anyone remember that?), and
give more hours of enjoyment than the most recent release in the dead
painters series.
The highlights of Thunderbird include:
1) completely glibc based (though libc5 applications continue
to run [well, applix does anyway])
2) new fdisk code (if this doesn't convince you to backup, nothing
will)
3) XFree86 3.3.1 (just like you can get for Biltmore already)
By far the most, umm, *exciting* (scary) feature is glibc. It includes full
POSIX thread support for all of you spinsters out there.
If you're interested in proving your manhood (or womanhood as the case may
be), you are not too strongly discouraged from installing Thunderbird via
your favorite installation media. You *cannot* upgrade to Thunderbird from
any other Red Hat release however. This does not imply any lack of
upgradibility from older releases to the next stable release of Red Hat
Linux, it only implies temporary summer doldrums on the part of the
developers (well, me anyway).
A new mailing list has been established at tbird-list@redhat.com which is
dedicated to letting frustrated bird lovers carp about this fine release.
Subscribe by sending mail with a subject of "subscribe" (please leave out
the quotes though) to tbird-list-request@redhat.com (Red Hat employees:
this means *you*!).
May this release give you the same amount of pleasure that it's sure to
give us.
- The Red Hat Linux Development Team
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