Available now, the Red Hat Powertools is a great way to upgrade a previous version of Red Hat, plus get hundreds of megabytes, over 3 Gigabytes of the latest software at the same time.
Included in the 6 CD set is the latest version of Red Hat (4.1) for the Intel, Alpha, and SPARC architectures. The archives contain sources for software such as World Wide Web tools, X Windows Managers, multi-media tools, and a huge collection of games, too.
Also included:
- The award winning Red Hat 4.1 Linux OS which includes:
- Linux kernels up to 2.0.29
- Experimental kernels up to 2.1.29
- XFree86 window system, including window managers, giving you a full graphical desktop/windowing environment
- C, C++, Java, and other popular language compilers
- Full UNIX networking, including ethernet, SLIP, PPP, TCP/IP, in fact, everything to connect to the Internet as a client or server.
- The famous sunsite.unc.edu Linux archive
- The clearing house of X11 free software, the ftp.x.org contrib directory.
- Latest snapshot of the ftp.xfree86.org.archive, including Linux binaries
- vger Linux/SPARC archive
- azstarnet Linux/Alpha archive
- All GNU sources from the prep.ai.mit.edu GNU Project ftp archive
- Dozens of HOWTOs, FAQ, and documents from the Linux Document Project.
- The Red Hat 4.1 Users Guide in HTML
- LyX a WSIWYG front-end to LaTeX
- Lesstif a free Motif clone
- lincity a SimCity style game
- fvwm2 latest beta of the fvwm window manager
- scotty advanced network management tool via SMNP
- gimp a powerful image processing program
- guavac/kaffe free java compilers
- xemacs emacs with many X11 enhancements
