Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 20:42:04 -0300
From: Sergio Bruder <bruder@conectiva.com.br>
To: lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Conectiva Linux 6.0 beta launched

  The first beta for Conectiva Linux 6.0 is out (version number:
  20000906). A great way to spend the September 7th holiday
  (if you are in Brazil, at least) is testing it :)

  Incomplete list of new features:

  - rpm-enabled apt-get. Yes, this is Debian's apt-get. And yes,
    it works with rpm. This is still unstable, but you may test
    it now.

  - FHS compliancy. This beta is not fully tuned, but you'll notice
    many different paths and such.

  - gcc 2.95. 'nough said.

  - XFree86 4.0.

  - KDE2. KOffice.

  - KUPS and LPRng.

  - GRUB instead of LILO. (the installer does not support GRUB yet,
    but it will in a future beta.)

  - Lots of minor updates: termcap no longer used, ncurses5 instead
    of ncurses4, bash 2.04 as the default bash instead of 1.14, etc.

  This is a beta, and quite informal. Do not expect it to work. Bugs
may be reported at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/bugzilla in either
Portuguese or English.

For comments about the beta, please use the beta mail list
(http://distro.conectiva.com.br/lista/)

The FTP server is being updated now, and the ISO images will follow 
shortly.

This announcement is in HTML form (in Portuguese) at:
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/artigo/24/72.html?idioma=en

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