Red Hat Linux 9 Officially Released

Advertisement (Why?)

Red Hat, Inc., the world's premier open source and Linux provider, today announced the availability of Red Hat Linux 9. Drawing from the work of the open source community, Red Hat Linux 9 allows users to take advantage of the newest open source technology first. With an improved graphical installation, new usability enhancements and end-user applications, Red Hat Linux 9 is designed for students, home computing and technology enthusiasts.

Red Hat Linux features Bluecurve, an easy-to-navigate interface with intuitively organized menus. Bluecurve has been upgraded in Red Hat Linux 9 and now extends to more areas of the operating system, including the menu and layout of the desktop. Red Hat Linux 9 features include:

Red Hat Linux 9 binaries and source code are currently available to Red Hat Network subscribers. To subscribe to Red Hat Network, please visit http://rhn.redhat.com. Red Hat Linux 9 will be widely available at retail locations and for purchase on www.redhat.com on April 7, 2003.

Red Hat Linux 9 has a MSRP of $39.95, and includes 30 days of Red Hat Network Basic Service and Web-based support.

Red Hat Linux 9 Professional has an MSRP of $149.95, and includes the operating system on DVD, SysAdmin Rescue Tool, an office and multimedia applications CD, 60 days of Red Hat Network Basic Service, 60 days of Web-based and telephone support.

News source: OSNews

View: Red hat Press Release

To participate in the program:

Go to BetaPlace.
Click the Sign In button and, if prompted, sign in using Microsoft Passport.
On the "Welcome to BetaPlace" page, select I have been issued a Guest ID by Microsoft.
Type ADAMGuest as the Guest ID (case sensitive), and click the OK button.
On the "Guest Access" page, click the ADAM Beta link.
Fill in the nomination survey that appears on the upper left of this page. Note: This is a public beta and everyone requesting access will be granted it.

Within 48 hours, you will receive a welcome e-mail from MS Beta that will contain your beta ID and password for the BetaPlace Web site and newsgroups. Current beta program participants and certified partners can specify their existing beta ID in the survey form.

#1 xStainDx on 31 Mar 2003 - 18:23

Sweet Mercifal Crap!!!! Time to download

#2 nacs on 31 Mar 2003 - 18:29

Right on time as they announced. Of course, I'll stick with Gentoo and the spanky new Mdk 9.1.

#3 cold on 31 Mar 2003 - 18:34

Mandrake 9.1 for me

#4 Foo Fighter on 31 Mar 2003 - 19:16

Crap! And I just got 8.0 installed!

#5 btallack on 31 Mar 2003 - 19:19

And I just got Red Hat 8 working on my desktop. damn. Well, by the time 9 is available to non-subscribers, I'll probably have messed it up again.

(2 replies) #6 DjmUK on 31 Mar 2003 - 19:21

I thought this was free, but you have to pay money to become a member - then you can download it, there's always a catch! Linux isn't going to be free forever, the Pro version is $150 aswell. Unless I've missed something, is there an official direct link to the ISO's? or isn't there a link until one has registered.

#6.1 BudMan on 31 Mar 2003 - 19:40

In 1 week it will be available for non RHN users, ie the general public. This is just a way to try and boost up RHN membership. If you can not wait the week, you can join at $60/year and get now

#6.2 dmd3x on 01 Apr 2003 - 01:14

[neoquote=#6.0 by DjmUK]I thought this was free, but you have to pay money to become a member - then you can download it, there's always a catch! Linux isn't going to be free forever, the Pro version is $150 aswell. Unless I've missed something, is there an official direct link to the ISO's? or isn't there a link until one has registered.[/neoquote] Yeah, the ISOs will be available absolutely free for anyone in a week (even non-subscribers).

#7 Chicane-UK on 31 Mar 2003 - 19:45

Dont be in a rush.. I think the RHN system is gonna be jammed up for a while. I normally download at 200k/sec or more from them, but was downloading the first iso at a modem busting 17k/sec earlier today

#8 btallack on 31 Mar 2003 - 19:54

I just found this on Slashdot. Non-Subscribers can get it from this link [URL=http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/rh9.html]here[/URL].

#9 nocture on 31 Mar 2003 - 19:55

coooool.. might gonna check it out

#10 CheeseCow on 31 Mar 2003 - 20:15

Heh... If you like "new and fresh", try out Gentoo Linux. It gives you a kind of "Windows update", except for that it updates your ENTIRE system, from word processor to kernel in one or two commands. And besides it is super 1337.

#11 Xeon™ on 31 Mar 2003 - 20:22

yay!!

/me is gunna download it

(2 replies) #12 qdave on 31 Mar 2003 - 21:55

aww,another linux

#12.1 Knight' on 31 Mar 2003 - 22:17

[neoquote=#12.0 by qdave]aww,another linux

[/neoquote] what do u mean?

#12.2 teka on 01 Apr 2003 - 06:45

I think he is saying that in a week we had: Slackware 9 Mandrake 9.1 Redhat 9.0

#13 warr on 01 Apr 2003 - 01:58

ya. time to upgrade again. I like Redhat Linux.

down with windowns.

#14 iomayho on 01 Apr 2003 - 05:51

me downloading...^^

#15 FuhrerDarqueSyde on 01 Apr 2003 - 05:58

If only my burner t'wasn't f0rk'd...

#16 epple on 01 Apr 2003 - 09:34

why is everything 9.x now? mandrake, slackware, and now redhat..

maybe i shouldnt care.

(1 reply) #17 Jstphish on 02 Apr 2003 - 08:06

Using Knoppix on cd. Not wasting my hardrive space yet. I'll wait until Redhat 10 or Mandrake 10. Maybe it will be worthy of putting on my harddrive. I don't know about you but I don't like spending my time command lining to unzip and then compile software when in XP I could do it with two mouse clicks. I love Linux I am just saying it needs to catch up before I switch and I do believe it is really close to being there.

#17.1 dmd3x on 16 Apr 2003 - 23:17

[neoquote=#17.0 by Jstphish]Using Knoppix on cd. Not wasting my hardrive space yet. I'll wait until Redhat 10 or Mandrake 10. Maybe it will be worthy of putting on my harddrive. I don't know about you but I don't like spending my time command lining to unzip and then compile software when in XP I could do it with two mouse clicks. I love Linux I am just saying it needs to catch up before I switch and I do believe it is really close to being there.[/neoquote] Doesn't look like he used Linux recently...

Commenting has either been disabled on this article or you are not logged in. Click here to login or register, its free!

Note: Anonymous commenting is disabled in order to keep the quality of responses to a high standard.

Neowin.net