[H-GEN] Linux Distribution

[Frank Brand]

Don't know how many of you follow the linux announce news group but this
snip I found interesting.

This distribution seems to include a bit more than the normal Red Hat
distributions, including the KDE stuff.

SNIP
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Bowtie Software (Australia) has just released Red Hat Linux 5.2 on CD
for just $3.75 (AUD). 

   http://www.kihi.com.au/bowtie/
   bowtie at kihi.com.au

Bowtie Software aim to provide the best value, most feature packed
CD-ROMs
available in Australia (and the rest of the world too).  Our products
can
be ordered right from our web page
(http://www.kihi.com.au/bowtie/order.shtml)

Our CDs are professionally pressed (giving you a better price and higher
reliability than CD-R).  They are El-Torido format, meaning they can
boot
right of the CD (no need for floppies).

What you will find on our CD:

   * A full GPL copy of RedHat Software's RedHat 5.2 for the intel x86
and
     compatable CPU's, RedHat 5.2 features include :
        o Linux kernel 2.0.36
        o XFree86 
        o AfterStep and AnotherLevel desktop environments
        o Utilities to make installation and system administration
extremely
          easy
        o The GIMP, image manipulation software in the style of
Photoshop
        o Postgres database
        o Apache http server (the same server used for around 50% of the
          internet)
        o Netscape 4.08 (Communicator and Navigator)
        o the full range of GNU utilities and unix/linux services
   * Official updates (bugfixes and security enhancements) to the RedHat
5.2
     distribution.
   * Documentation: An excellent manual, in HTML format. A collection of
     FAQ's (Frequently Asked Questions). A collection of HOWTO's,
     step-by-step instructions for doing almost anything with your Linux
     system.
   * Extras, contributed packages, including:
        o Netscape 4.5 (Navigator and Communicator)
        o KDE
        o ICQ emulators
        o Extra window managers to choose from (WindowMaker,
Enlightenment,
          IceWM and BlackBox)
        o a collection of games
        o the latest snapshot of WINE, a Windows (3.1,95,NT) emulator
that
          is now reported to run some parts of Office 97.
        o emulators for the Super Nintendo, C64, Atari800, Amiga500
        o Sound and Multimedia utilities: mp3, wav and midi players and
          editors, networked sound utilities, video mpeg viewers and
          encoders, and more.
        o 3D graphics utilities Mesa (an OpenGL compatible library),
povray,
          aero, sced, moonlight


Bowtie Software
http://www.kihi.com.au/bowtie/
bowtie at kihi.com.au



-- 
Frank Brand
E-mail: fbrand at uq.net.au
Homepage: http://www.uq.net.au/~zzfbrand