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From: Justin Cormack <jpc1@doc.ic.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 23:28:46 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: Suggestions for Red Hat > I would like to suggest that in the future, Red Hat include the Lesstif > library. The reason for this is that Lesstif is now stable enough that > several Motif applications (such as Mozilla, Oleo, DDD, etc.) will now > compile and run quite well with it. This, coupled with a nice Motif > program like DDD (which is much nicer than xxgdb, IMHO), would add a new > dimension to Red Hat. Anyone? I realize that Red Hat has things like > GNOME and KDE, which might make Motif compatibility less of an issue, but > even so, most proprietary Unix offerings do ship with a freely available > Motif/CDE implementation, and adding Lesstif to Red Hat would be yet > another step to allow it to compete with the "big guys," for those who are > looking for uniformity with Motif rather than a fancier (better) desktop > like GNOME or KDE. lesstif (and ddd) have always come with Powertools. It is always worth going through powertools and adding the bits you need. I guess hardly anyone needs all of it, but most people need some of it, so it makes some sense having it separately. === From: Mark Knipfer <mknipfer@one.net> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:04:03 -0400 Subject: RedHat Linux 5.2 PowerTools I am downloading the RedHat Linux 5.2 PowerTools from the rufus FTP site and wondering what advantage there are in using the PowerTools. Is there any documentation on these PowerTools; as I have not searched very much for the documentation yet? ftp://rufus.w3.org/linux/powertools/5.2/i386/ ===