"It's inevitable that packages start to leak out," said Red Hat spokeswoman Leigh Day. The company plans to release the Red Hat 8 software on Monday, including the "ISO" files, from which installation CD-ROMs can easily be made, Day said.

Red Hat 8, called "Psyche," is a significant departure from the current 7.3 "Valhalla" edition. As previously reported, it adds a new "personal desktop" installation option for more mainstream users. The previous installation choices were "workstation" and "server," both for more technically savvy users such as programmers or system administrators.

The personal desktop version includes the OpenOffice software package, an open-source answer to Microsoft's popular Office package; Ximian's Evolution e-mail and calendar software and Red Hat's new "Bluecurve" desktop interface, a customization of the traditional KDE or Gnome interfaces. Red Hat 8 uses the Mozilla Web browser but no longer includes the Netscape browser.

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Thanks for the heads up. Been looking around for the iso's.

From Chit Chat... Just thought it might be useful

6 Cd's hmmmm
hxxp://www.linuxcompatible.org/article.php?sid=240 ;)

Seems to me you only need the first 3 for normal installs. 4 and 5 are rpm's. 6? I didn't see that one yet. Servers are pretty busy.

Please check the mirrors page @ Red Hat for more distro servers.

To get a distro that is not hammered, ping the address first, get the time of response and judge it from there. Most servers now have all the ISO's.

These are all really good servers, though some can be accessed through HTTP.

Can anyone release this internally here, or our people better off getting it from the registered mirrors?

Regards,
Cyberion