Wiley Red Hat Linux 9 Bible 978-0-7645-3938-1 ユーザーズマニュアル

An Overview of Red Hat Linux 

•  Samba (Windows SMB file/printer sharing): version 2.2.7a 
•  CUPS (print services): version 1.1.17 
•  Sendmail (mail transport agent): version 8.12.8 
•  vsFTPd (secure FTP server): version 1.1.3 
•  INN (Usenet news server): version 2.3.4 
•  MySQL (database server): version 3.23.54a 
•  BIND (Domain name system server): version 9.2.1 

TIP: If you want the latest features in Linux when looking at different Linux distributions, compare the 
version numbers shown above. Version numbers that Linux distributors such as Mandrake, SUSE, and Red 
Hat associate with their releases can be arbitrary. By comparing versions of the kernel, KDE and GNOME 
desktops, and GNU compiler they are using, you can tell which distribution actually has the latest features. 

As Red Hat continues to consolidate its distribution, some popular packages have been 
dropped since Red Hat Linux 8, such as the following: 

•  WindowMaker — As Red Hat tightens its focus on MetaCity window manager (for 

GNOME) and KWin (for KDE), this window manager has been dropped.. 

•  WuFTPd — This FTP server was dropped from Red Hat Linux 9. The vsFTPd package 

is now the recommended (and only) FTP server included with Red Hat Linux. 

•  Fortune-mod — This software for showing little fortune messages was dropped because 

some of its contents may have been copyrighted. 

•  Wine — This software, which allows you to run many Microsoft Windows software 

packages in Linux, was dropped from the distribution because of developer resource 
constraints.  

Here are a few other packages that are noted as deprecated (slated to be dropped in the future): 

•  Pine — This popular mail package is beset by licence-related issues.. 
•  LPRng — This printing service has been superceded by CUPS as Red Hat's preferred 

printing service. 

•  LILO — This boot loader has been replaced by GRUB by default. 
•  Sndconfig — Redhat-config-soundcard is recommended for configuring sound cards. 
•  Ncpfs and Mars-nwe — These packages run NetWare utilities and set up NetWare 

servers in Linux, respectively. They are not “part of the Red Hat Linux product profile." 

See Appendix B for information on other packages no longer included in Red Hat Linux. 

NOTE: Just because a package has been dropped from Red Hat Linux doesn't mean that you can't still get 
and use the package. In fact, I tell how to find and install packages like Wine and WuFTPd in this book.