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Red Hat launches new Update CD giving users the opportunity to get the new 2.4 kernel without having to buy a complete new operating system

Red Hat Linux 7 Update CD contains:
Kernel 2.4 
The 2.4 kernel CD for Red Hat Linux 7 is the candidate release of the
2.4 kernel 
issued by www.kernel.org to be used in a testing environment. 
This version of the 2.4 kernel does not contain any patches provided by
Red Hat for bugs or security issues. 
  
Official Update/Contrib CD 
All Official Red Hat Linux 7 updates 
Additional contrib software and applications for Red Hat Linux 
KDE 2.0.1 includes 
    - Core KDE libraries 
    - Core desktop environment 
    - KOffice suite, and more! 
Automatic Graphical Installation 
  
SysAdmin Survival CD 
This is a credit card sized CD-ROM to be used during system maintenance. 
Contains the most important tools and utilities required by system
administrators such as: 
    - Tools for managing TCP/IP services (telnet,FTP, ssh, ...) 
    - Software for DNS and MAIL server maintenance 
    - Utilities for filesystem and disk maintenance (fdisk, mkfs.ext2,
fsck.ext2,...) 
    - RAID partitioning software 
    - Editors like vi, joe ... 
    - System monitoring and analysis 
Reboot your system after inserting the SysAdmin CD and you will have a
mini Red Hat Linux operating system. 
  

Games CD 
This CD contains a collection of popular Linux games such as 
    - Parsec 
    - Tux Racer 
    - Pingus 
    - Penguin-Commander 
    - rocksndiamonds 
    - xinvaders 
    - 35 other selected Linux games in rpm format. 
Live Directory - all games playable directly from CD-ROM 
    
Available in the following languages: 
English
German 
French 
Italian 
Spanish 




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