Red Carpet 2.0 preview 2 release

[Joe Shaw <joe ximian com>]

Hi,

We're happy to announce a second previous release of Red Carpet 2.0.

WHAT IS RED CARPET?
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Red Carpet is a graphical software management tool for RPM and dpkg
systems.  Red Carpet allows you to update and remove existing software
and install new software on your machine quickly and easily with
complete dependency resolution.  It also allows you to get information
on packages and dependencies and view a history of package
transactions.  To make the large amounts of available software easy to
manage, Red Carpet organizes software conceptually into "channels".

NEW SINCE 2.0 PREVIEW 1
=======================
Since the first preview release we've fixed several bugs that have been
found and based on your feedback have addressed a number of user
interface issues, including a tabbed UI and reworked strings.

This version also features the following translations:
   sv: Christian Rose
   pt: Duarte Loreto
   da: Kenneth Christiansen
   nl: Vincent van Adrighem

NEW SINCE 1.4
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Red Carpet 2.0 features an all-new, native GTK+ 2.0-based user
interface.  Its new layout allows more powerful access to software
management tasks like installing software from multiple channels and
installing and removing software simultaneously.  It aims to conform to
the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.

HOW TO GET IT
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Binary packages for Red Hat Linux 7.3, 8.0 and 9 are available from the
"RCD snapshots" channel in Red Carpet, or on our FTP site at
ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/rcd-snaps.  For the second preview, the version
number is 1.99.2.  You will also need the "rcd" package.

This isn't the final supported distribution list, and more distributions
will be added as we approach a final 2.0 release.

EXTENDED BUG HUNT CONTEST
=========================
We've extended the Red Carpet 2.0 bug hunt contest until May 2.  Prives
include Bose QuietComfort Acoustic Noise Cancelling headphones, gift
certificates to Amazon.com, and Ximian t-shirts.  See the link below for
more details.

DEVELOPERS
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Red Carpet (and associated components) are licensed under the GNU GPL
and can be found in GNOME CVS in the "red-carpet" module.  Associated
components libredcarpet (module "libredcarpet"), the Red Carpet Daemon
("rcd") and the rc command-line tool ("rc") are also in GNOME CVS.

We welcome developer contributions and recommend you subscribe to the
rc-devel mailing list.  See http://lists.ximian.com.

MORE INFORMATION
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There's a lot more information on Red Carpet and related projects at
this URL:

http://developer.ximian.com/projects/rcd/

Thanks,
The Red Carpet Team