From: salva (SInsalaco@fabernet.com)
Date: Tue Jan 26 1999 - 21:21:36 CET
"Toilet Vortex" Produces Red Hat 10.0
Written by James Baughn on January 1, 1999 from the
everyone-needs-their-own-temporal-singularity dept.
Bob Hutzfield has put a dozen copies of "Red Hat Linux 10.0" up for
auction at eBay.com. He claims that his toilet is the portal to a
"temporal vortex singularity" and that the toilet periodically spits
out items from the future. Last week, a package containing twelve
Red Hat Linux 10.0 shrink-wrapped boxes materialized at the toilet
vortex. Hutzfield is now offering them at auction with a minimum
bid of US$1000.
The following press release was taken from the eBay auction
page. Hutzfield claims that he found this press release inside the
package that emerged from his toilet vortex.
RED HAT LINUX 10.0
June 15, 2002
Press Release
For Immediate Release
RALEIGH-DURHAM, NC -- HypeNewsWire -- Red Hat, the producer of the
most popular Linux distribution with over 25 million estimated
users, is proud to announce the availability of Red Hat Linux
10.0. The latest version contains the new Linux 6.2 kernel, the Z
Window System 2.0, full support for legacy Windows 3.x/9x/200x/NT
software apps, and more. Copies of Red Hat Linux 10.0 will be
available in stores on CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, or GNUDE (GNU Digital
Encoding) disks within the next week.
Compaq, Dell, Gateway, and several other large computer
manufacturers have announced that they will offer computer systems
with Red Hat 10.0 pre-installed. "We can sell systems with Red Hat
pre-installed for considerably less than systems with Microsoft
ActiveWindows 2001. Overall, Red Hat Linux's superior quality, low
price, and modest system requirements puts Windows to shame," one
Dell spokesperson said at last week's LinDex convention.
Some of the new features of Red Hat Linux 10.0 include:
xlib7 support - Red Hat has fully migrated from libc6 to the
new xlib7 C libraries. Meanwhile, other Linux distributions
such as Slackware are still using the ancient libc5 system.
GNUDE disk drivers - The 6.2 kernel has support for the GNU
Project's GNUDE disk format (with 1 terabyte maximum
capacity) built-in. Full GPLed specifications for the GNUDE
drive and interface are available from the gnu.org website,
along with step-by-step instructions for creating your own
GNUDE drive out of inexpensive parts.
Updated WINE program - RH 10.0 includes the latest version of
WINE with full support for all legacy Windows applications
except those written for the new ActiveWindows 2001 version.
WordPerfect Suite v.10 - The latest version of Corel's open
source office suite with GTK+/GNOME support is bundled with
RH 10.0.
[Rest of the press release snipped for the sake of brevity.]
It's wonderful it'sn't? :)
It's nearly a dream :)
Probably is the future :D
p.s. Michele, are you imagining muLinux 27.0, fit into a 1 Terabyte
GNUDE drive? :D
Bye......
salva
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