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The Operating System

Developed under the code-name ‘Psyche’, Red Hat Linux 8.0 was released on the 30th September 2002. The underlying system was based on a 2.4.18 linux kernel, gcc 3.2 and a pre-release of glibc 2.3. It also shipped with the cross-environment Bluecurve theme that aimed to give the included GNOME 2 and KDE 3 desktops a unified look and feel.

Red hat Linux 8.0 recieved generally positive reviews though it was critised for the removal of the Taiwanese flag from the provided KDE installation.

The Web Browser

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Browser User Agent

When contacting webservers ‘Red Hat 8.0 with Galeon 1.2.5’ will identify itself as ‘Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809’.

Run Period

For ‘Red Hat 8.0 with Galeon 1.2.5’ Period Sites in Period Browsers is currently searching for pages archived between 2002-09-30 and 2003-03-30.

Emulation Platform

Hardware emulation for this platform is currently provided by the QEMU Project.

Links

Red Hat Linux 8.0 for x86 can be found at the Redhat.com Archive. Galeon 1.2.5 can be found on the Red Hat Linux 8.0 installation media.

Screenshot

Examples of Red Hat 8.0 with Galeon 1.2.5

• Red Hat 8.0 with Galeon 1.2.5 showing a page from 'Angelfire'
4:00, 24/11/27
• Red Hat 8.0 with Galeon 1.2.5 showing a page from 'fark'
8:00, 24/11/05
• Red Hat 8.0 with Galeon 1.2.5 showing a page from 'The Telegraph'
16:00, 24/10/14
• Red Hat 8.0 with Galeon 1.2.5 showing a page from 'The Met Office'
0:00, 24/09/23
• Red Hat 8.0 with Galeon 1.2.5 showing a page from 'Radio Times'
8:00, 24/09/01
• Red Hat 8.0 with Galeon 1.2.5 showing a page from 'North York Moors National Park'
16:00, 24/08/10
• Red Hat 8.0 with Galeon 1.2.5 showing a page from 'MI5 - The Security Service'
0:00, 24/07/20
• Red Hat 8.0 with Galeon 1.2.5 showing a page from 'Apple User Pages'
8:00, 24/06/28
• Red Hat 8.0 with Galeon 1.2.5 showing a page from 'TheRegister.co.uk'
16:00, 24/06/06
• Red Hat 8.0 with Galeon 1.2.5 showing a page from 'Stuckism International'
0:00, 24/05/16
• Red Hat 8.0 with Galeon 1.2.5 showing A Softer World
16:00, 24/04/24
• Red Hat 8.0 with Galeon 1.2.5 showing Lspace.org
16:00, 24/04/03
• Red Hat 8.0 with Galeon 1.2.5 showing Winamp
0:00, 24/03/09

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