Red Hat Announces New Beta, PHOEBE | Linux Today

Red Hat Announces New Beta, PHOEBE

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 23, 2002
 "You know, Chandler, you being here is the best gift I could
  ask for Christmas."
  
 "Aww. Thanks Pheebs."
 
 "Ok, now where's my real present?"
 
Red Hat, Inc. has a holiday gift for you - PHOEBE, a new
beta release of Red Hat Linux.

PHOEBE is 6 CDs of software (3 binary, 3 source), including, among
other things:
 - the latest in bleeding-edge desktop and XFree86 technology
 - Mozilla 1.2.1, with Xft antialiased fonts
 - glibc-2.3.1, with the new Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL),
   for performant and scalable threading

PHOEBE is, of course, not intended for use on mission critical
or other production systems.

As always, we do not recommend the use of beta software on mission
critical or production systems. In fact, we may laugh at those who
try. Problems with PHOEBE should be reported via bugzilla, at:

 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
 
PHOEBE can be found at redhat.com. Specifically:

 ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/

or, at the following mirrors (list courtesy Warren Togami):

Europe
Austria
ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/redhat.com/dist/linux/beta/phoebe/
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/redhat.com/dist/linux/beta/phoebe/
rsync://gd.tuwien.ac.at/redhat/dist/linux/beta/phoebe/

Belgium
ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/

Britain
ftp://ftp.g-int.net/Mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
http://ftp.g-int.net/Mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/

Czech Republic
ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/pub/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
rsync://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/redhat/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
rsync://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/

Finland
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/linux/mirrors/redhat/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://ftp.ipv6.funet.fi/pub/linux/mirrors/redhat/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/

France
ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/beta/phoebe/
http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/beta/phoebe/
ftp://ftp.crihan.fr/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
http://ftp.crihan.fr/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/RedHat/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/

Germany
ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/redhat-ftp/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/redhat-ftp/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/pub/linux/Mirror/ftp.redhat.com/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/redhat-ftp/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/mirrors/redhat.com/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://ftp.uni-koeln.de/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/

Italy
ftp://ftp.edisontel.com/pub/RedHat_Mirror/linux/beta/phoebe/

Ireland
ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://ftp.ipv6.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
http://ftp.ipv6.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/

Netherlands
ftp://alviss.et.tudelft.nl/pub/redhat/beta/phoebe/
ftp://ftp.quicknet.nl/pub/Linux/ftp.redhat.com/beta/phoebe/
ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/RedHat/ftp/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/RedHat/ftp/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://ftp.eu.uu.net/pub/linux/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/

Norway
ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/RedHat/redhat/beta/phoebe/

Poland
ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
rsync://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/ftp/pub/Linux/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://ftp.pbone.net/pub/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/

Spain
ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/
http://ftp.rediris.es/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/

Romania
ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/


Atlantic
Iceland
ftp://ftp.linux.is/pub/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/

Puerto Rico
ftp://mirrors.hpcf.upr.edu/pub/Mirrors/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/linux/beta/phoebe/

Asia
Japan
ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/Linux/packages/RedHat/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/

Korea
ftp://ftp.kreonet.re.kr/pub/Linux/RedHat/beta/phoebe/

Russia
ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
http://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/

Canada
ftp://ftp.nrc.ca/pub/systems/linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/linux/beta/phoebe/

USA East
ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://mirror.eas.muohio.edu/mirrors/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/
http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://redhat.dulug.duke.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://mirror.cs.princeton.edu/pub/mirrors/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/beta/phoebe/
ftp://chuck.ucs.indiana.edu/pub/linux/redhat/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://mirror.pa.msu.edu/linux/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/redhat/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://kickstart.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/

USA Central
ftp://linux.nssl.noaa.gov/linux/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
rsync://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/redhat/beta/phoebe/
ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/redhat/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
http://redhat.netnitco.net/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/

USA West
ftp://limestone.uoregon.edu/redhat/beta/phoebe/

Pacific
Australia
ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/redhat/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/
http://redhat.pacific.net.au/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/

Hawaii
ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/

For discussion of PHOEBE, send mail to:
 
   phoebe-list-request@redhat.com
    
with
     
  subscribe
        
in the subject line. You can leave the body empty. Or see:
         
  https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list/

Web Webster

Web Webster

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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