From: Bowtie Software <bowtie@kihi.com.au> Subject: Press-Release: A$3.75 RedHat 5.2 on CD in Australia from Bowtie Software To: lwn@lwn.net Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 22:36:33 +1100 (EST) 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@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@kihi.com.au