Sometime Monday (not exactly sure when) the 8.0 directory on mirrors worldwide will open for download. Red Hat 8.0 presents a significant upgrade in desktop Linux from Red Hat 7.3, even better than Mandrake 9.0 in some ways.
Some of the nice new upgrades: Apache 2.0 Gnome 2.0 (heavily modified) gcc 3.2 Among some other notable improvements are the inclusion of SpamAssassin and SquirrelMail. This means that out-of-the-box Red Hat can give people their own personal fetchmail/procmail/spamassassin/imap/squirrelmail combo. Perhaps the only drawback is that the MP3 player plugins had to be removed for legal reasons. That's okay, because you can download easy to install packages from other places to restore this functionality in XMMS. The Freshrpms site has the xmms-mp3 plugin, DVD player and some other neat custom packages ready for Red Hat 8.0. http://freshrpms.net/ I highly recommend reading the RELEASE-NOTES of Red Hat after the mirror opens up. It is very long and details the many improvements in many areas. I've been working on the betas for this release, and even I was surprised by the vast improvements made since the last beta. Download (mirrors open sometime Monday) ======== ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/redhat/linux/8.0 University of Hawaii Videl mirror (limit 10 connections) Oceanic mirror (limit 50 connections) is open only to Hawaii RoadRunner and Oceanic network customers. Unfortunately there seems to be some router setting severely limiting bandwidth at the moment, but I think Doug or Jeff will resolve this issue quickly. ftp://mplug.oceanic.com/mirrors/redhat/linux/8.0 Internet2 Mirror, use this if you are on UH campus or another Internet2 connected educational institution. http://redhat.dsi.internet2.edu/8.0 Interational List of mirrors can be found here: http://freshrpms.net/mirrors/psyche.html