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Matthias Saou of FreshRPMs has released a ton of new RPMs packages for Red Hat Linux 9, including a CVS snapshot of mplayer 1.0

mplayer 1.0-20031002
MPlayer, the Movie Player for Linux. It plays most video formats as well as DVDs. Its big feature is the wide range of supported output drivers. There are also nice antialiased shaded subtitles and OSD.
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libpostproc 1.0-20031002
This package contains only MPlayer's libpostproc post-processing library which other projects such as transcode may use. Install this package if you intend to use MPlayer, transcode or other similar programs.
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gentoo 0.11.35
gentoo is a file manager for Linux written from scratch in pure C. It uses the GTK+ toolkit for all of its interface needs. gentoo provides 100% GUI configurability; no need to edit config files by hand and re-start the program. gentoo supports identifying the type of various files (using extension, regular expressions, and/or the 'file' command), and can display files of different types with different colors and icons. gentoo borrows some of its look and feel from the classic Amiga file manager "Directory OPUS"(TM) (written by Jonathan Potter).
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sylpheed-claws 0.9.6
Sylpheed is an e-mail client (and news reader) based on GTK+, running on X Window System, and aiming for quick responses, a graceful and sophisticated interface, easy configuration, intuitive operation and abundant features.

The appearance and interface are similar to some popular e-mail clients for Windows, such as Outlook Express, Becky!, and Datula. The interface is also designed to emulate the mailers on Emacsen, and almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard.

This is the BLEEDING EDGE, DEVELOPMENT branch of sylpheed!
You have been warned :wink:
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libexif 0.5.12
Most digital cameras produce EXIF files, which are JPEG files with extra tags that contain information about the image. The EXIF library allows you to parse an EXIF file and read the data from those tags.
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libexif 0.5.12-devel
The libexif-devel package contains the libraries and include files that you can use to develop libexif applications.
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A new issue of the Red Hat Magazine is out in italy. This issue comes with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.9.5 AS Beta on 4 CDs

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The next issue of the german Red Hat Magazine is planned for the week of October 20th, and includes Fedora Core Test on 3 CDs

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Hoping to enhance its credibility among corporate users, Red Hat plans to construct an Open Source Architecture sculpted around the company's upcoming Linux operating system and middleware pieces that focus on management, security, and clustering capabilities.

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In the latest big win for Linux and open source, infrastructure service provider VeriSign has decided to migrate 2,000 of its high-performance Unix servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Intel in a move the company says will help reduce its operating expenses.

The 2,000 servers to be migrated operate across all of VeriSign's business units. The migration to Linux has already started with VeriSign's Naming and Directory Services business unit and with the deployment of Oracle on Linux for several corporate applications. The balance of the migration will take place over the next 18 months, which should lend another doubling of processing power, Dave Pool, vice president of infrastructure engineering at VeriSign, said on Tuesday.

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Red Hat Inc. and Oracle Corp. will tighten their relationship as the companies work together on the next version of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux server.

Officials at the OracleWorld conference here last week said Oracle will continue to contribute development work and code in areas such as management, clustering and enterprise database to the open-source and Linux community in association with companies such as Red Hat and SuSE Linux A.G.

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GAIM 0.68 and Sylpheed 0.9.5 RPMs are now available for Red Hat Linux 9 at FreshRPMs

GAIM 0.68
A Gtk2 based multiprotocol instant messaging client. Gaim allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols, including AIM (Oscar and TOC), ICQ, IRC, Yahoo!, MSN Messenger, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Napster, and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just load the plugin for it.

Gaim supports many common features of other clients, as well as many unique features, such as perl scripting and C plugins.

Gaim is NOT affiliated with or endorsed by AOL.
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Sylpheed 0.9.5
A full-featured GTK+ based fast e-mail client. Sylpheed is an e-mail client (and news reader) based on GTK+, running on X Window System, and aiming for quick responses, a graceful and sophisticated interface, easy configuration, intuitive operation and abundant features.

The appearance and interface are similar to some popular e-mail clients for Windows, such as Outlook Express, Becky!, and Datula. The interface is also designed to emulate the mailers on Emacsen, and almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard.
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