AFAIK there is very little chance for redhat to release 7.3 this month.
my guess is that redhat is waiting for KDE 3 official release
and that gnome 2 beta would come with the full release.
btw if you look at rawhide you see redhat supports kde much more than they
support GNOME guys.
also mozilla 1.0 is already tagged.
for gamers amoung us wineX 2.0 would be out soon.
which would make wine support direct x 5-8 or so.
much more important than hebrew support if you ask me.
btw I heard pre bidi support should enter star office soon.
(GUI only for the time).
I think that sadly ibm people have been waisting their time doing the work
as with every passing week the chances of their bidi patch integrating
into openoffice is being reduced.
Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Eli Marmor wrote:
> April 2002 is going to be a hot month for Linux. Once per a year or two
> there is a time crowded with announcements, and I try to guess them and
> their exact time. I'll repeat it here. Contrary to research companies
> (such as Gartner, IDC) I will not usegeneral forecasts ("new versions
> of Linux desktop managers will be announced during 2002") or disclaim
> myself ("probability of 0.6"), but be very specific. Nevertheless, I
> had always high successes (~80%), and I hope to repeat them this time.
>
> Contrary to proprietary software, OSS is composed of many projects that
> are developed in parallel, and each has its own major releases, usually
> once per 2 or even 3 years. If you take the 10-15 key OSS projects, and
> their major announcements are spreaded over the time, then you have 1
> or 2 announcments per a quarter.
>
> Sometimes, in coincidence, many projects reach important milestones
> together. It is going to happen now, on April (and maybe May too) which
> is going to be exciting, with almost a major announcement per a week.
>
> Some of the following announcments are known to some people here, some
> not. For the convenience of everybody, I'll list all of them here:
>
> KDE 3.0:
> ========
> Beginning of April, +- 1 week.
>
> GNOME 2.0:
> ==========
> Expected to May 1, according to the schedule.
> A big loss for GNOME, which is going to miss the inclusion of its new
> version in RH8.0 (Red Hat has been always the most loyal supporter of
> GNOME).
> My guess: somewhere in May.
>
> Apache 2.0:
> ===========
> After 4 years of development, ASF will release it on the beginning of
> May, +- 2 weeks (my guess; ASF doesn't know it, yet...).
> The main cause of delay, in my eyes, is 3rd-party add-ons slowing to
> port their stuff to 2.0 (webmin, FastCGI, Apacompile, etc.); the
> stability is very high, and 2.0 is mature and ready for the big time.
>
> Mozilla 1.0:
> ============
> End of April, +- 2 weeks.
>
> SuSE 8.0:
> =========
> Expected by the vendor to April 22 (they will meet it, of course; after
> all, they are German...).
> Will be based of KDE3 and XFree86 4.2.
> SuSE was blamed in the past for delaying their FTP availability, to
> encourage purchasers of the CD's, so don't expect any FTP availability
> on April 22.
>
> Red Hat 8.0:
> ============
> End of April, +- 2 weeks.
> Will contain KDE3 and XFree86 4.2, but still GCC-2.9.6 and GNOME 1.4.
> (first time that KDE is supplied in a better status than GNOME under
> RH; of course, users can always download GNOME2 when it is ready, but
> the experience teaches us that more than 90% of the users don't upgrade
> anything, maybe except for security patches).
>
> WINE 1.0:
> =========
> Contrary to the expectations, I do NOT see any WINE 1.0 soon.
> Although this is a list of expected announcements, and not of the "non"
> announcments, I mentionit here, because there are too many rumors
> about a soon 1.0.
>
>
> Wow, what a list...and all of this, in a so short time...
>
>
> There are many other expected announcements, but not as imporant as the
> listed above (although it depends on your personal taste, which may
> differ than mine...). Some of the other announcements are not major
> upgrades (but only minor), and some are of not so important packages.
>
> Happy (and Kosher - for those of us who are not offended by this wish)
> Passover!
> --
> Eli Marmor
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