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la la la linux distro abuse
Nov. 6th, 2003 04:42 pmsheesh, that's a bit strong. never mind the variety of wrongness.
public service announcement
Sep. 1st, 2003 03:24 pmSince 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:This has been a public service announcement on behalf of IRRADIATED WAIDERS INC. Thank you for your attention.
- 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
It's nice that Red Hat gave us subscriber folks early access to the ISO files of Red Hat 9, but given that it's going to take me about a week to download the thing at the current rate (8K/sec, when I can get a connection) I don't think it's much more than a nice thought.
