Re: RedHat Linux 5.1

[Alex Roberts <bse dial pipex com>]

On Sat, 23 May 1998 nuke@bayside.net wrote:

> don't take my words as gold, but these are fairly good educated guesses..
> 
> > I noticed that Red Hat Linux 5.1 is about to be released
> > (http://www.redhat.com says shipping will being 1 June <bold>and</bold>
> > although it also says "order now", you can't).
> > 
> > 
> > The listing of the contents of 5.1 lists gnome as being included
> > (although not guile??).
> > 
> > 
> > Questions:
> > 
> > 
> > 1. As compared to the snapshots, what version is being shipped??
> 
> they'll probably distribute a fairly-working recent snapshot.
> 
> > 2. What is the default window-manager for 5.1?? ... the one in 5.0 or
> > gnome based or what?
> 
> from what i'm told, RH will use afterstep from now on.
Hope it's AfterStep 1.0 at least, 1.4.5 is very strange and VERY hard to
configure ;-)

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