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ExtremeTech: Red Hat Beta (Phoebe) Preview

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 4, 2003

“Gnome2 (2.1.1-2) is still the default desktop environment for
Red Hat Linux. On the surface everything looks pretty much the
same–it still uses the Bluecurve desktop. All the cool stuff is
underneath:

  • “It runs on kernel 2.4.20-2.2.
  • “Cups is now the default printing engine, which means no more
    lpd unless you choose to install it.
  • “The Gnome menu now has an ‘open recent’ option (The KDE menu
    also has this but it’s turned off by default for some
    reason)…”

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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