OSNews: Screenshots from Red Hat Linux’s “Severn” Beta

“After you install the 3 CDs and you do the first booting, right
after the kernel is loaded, you are greeted with a graphical
booting procedure. It is plain, but it works… I have to note here
that while Red Hat successfully told LILO to load an SMP kernel for
my dual Celeron system, it would stop loading the OS right after
initializing the swap. Reseting the machine and booting with the
non-SMP kernel, worked fine.

“There is a first-time wizard, where you can create new users,
subscribe to Red Hat Network etc. After that, Gnome is loaded and
it looks pretty much, exactly the same as in Red Hat Linux 9. There
are of course some new packages, like Evolution 1.4.3, Mozilla 1.4,
but a lot of other packages are still not updated, e.g. OOo, the
core Gnome itself (2.2.0 the About box says), but they should be
before the release…”

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