(Nikkei BP Group)
(No.1 High-Tech News Site in Japanese)
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December 9, 1998 (TOKYO) -- Japanese software developer Itsutsubashi
Research Co., Ltd. said it will start to deliver Japanese Red Hat Linux
5.2J in February 1999.
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The new product is equipped with GNU Network Object Model Environment
(GNOME), which is one of the typical desktop environments for Linux,
itself a type of license-free operating system. The price will be set
at 9,800 yen (US$80).
It is based on Red Hat Linux 5.2 developed by Red Hat Software Inc. of
the United States, and bundles a Japanese language installer, Japanese
applications, a Japanese TrueType font set and other software.
TrueType fonts can be rasterized and then displayed on X Windows through
the attached X-TrueType Server (X-TT). Moreover, it also bundles a localized
Netscape Communicator 4.5 (Japanese).
Red Hat Linux also is designed to adopt a package management system called
Red Hat Program Management (RPM), which makes easy procedures for installing/uninstalling
and upgrades.
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