public service announcement

[waider]

Since it appears that nobody bothered reading Red Hat's release notes for Red Hat 9, let me quote the following:

The following packages have been removed from Red Hat Linux 9:
- WindowMaker - Developer resource constraints
- Xft - Integrated into XFree86
- Xtest - No longer required by Anaconda
- anonftp - functionality pulled into vsftpd package
- bdflush - No longer required (needed by 2.2 kernels only)
- fileutils - Replaced by coreutils
- fortune-mod - Unclear copyright status
- gkermit - Replaced by ckermit
- ipvsadm - No longer part of Red Hat Linux product profile
- kbdconfig - Replaced by redhat-config-keyboard
- kernel-uml - Experimental package, removed
- ksymoops - No longer required by kernel
- libelf - Replaced by elfutils
- librpm404 - No longer required compatibility library
- libxml10 - No longer required compatibility library
- mouseconfig - Replaced by redhat-config-mouse
- openldap12 - No longer required compatibility library
- openssl095a - No longer required compatibility library
- orbit-python - Replaced by pyorbit
- php-dbg-base - Not used within distribution
- php-dbg-client - Not used within distribution
- php-dbg-server - Not used within distribution
- redhat-switchmail - Renamed to redhat-switch-mail
- rhmask - Red Hat no longer distributes rhmask files
- rpm2html - Deprecated by author
- sh-utils - Replaced by coreutils
- stat - Replaced by coreutils
- textutils - Replaced by coreutils
- timeconfig - Replaced by redhat-config-date
- whois - Replaced by jwhois
- wine - Developer resource constraints
- wmapm - Part of Windowmaker removal
- wmclock - Part of Windowmaker removal
- wmix - Part of Windowmaker removal
- wu-ftpd - vsftpd is the recommended FTP daemon
- xtoolwait - Not used within distribution

This has been a public service announcement on behalf of IRRADIATED WAIDERS INC. Thank you for your attention.

Comments

The only one that annoyed me

[odaiwai.livejournal.com]

The only one of them that annoyed me by its absence was Xtest - it used to be a good way to recover from the mouse pointer hanging without restarting X.

Personally, I found RH9 to be a much more polished release than RH8.0. It just felt (and looked) better.

dave

Re: The only one that annoyed me

[waider.livejournal.com]

The lack of fvwm in recent releases peeves me, since it's my window manager of choice. I don't like the fact that the preferred desktop offerings are sluggish on a 450MHz machine with a 2xAGP video card. That aside, I do agree that Red Hat 9 is WAY more polished than 8. 8 was a joke.