Red Hat 7.2 Released 669
If you're upgrading from the previous Red Hat 7.1 and you're using Ximian GNOME, then you might want to erase all Ximian GNOME RPMS (use the command: rpm -e `rpm -qa | grep -i ximian` --nodeps to erase the RPMS). Red Hat's GNOME RPMS has been more tested then Ximian's one and there is a conflict between them. You cannot use Red-Carpet on Redhat 7.2 as it will fail with the RPM libraries.
These are the most critical notes about Redhat 7.2. You might want to read the README & the Release-notes which appears on the 1st ISO image.
Oh, and if you already installed it - then have some fun with the new un-official RPMS from Enigma's section of FreshRPMS
LILO vs. GRUB (Score:1, Interesting)
I am stoked! (Score:2, Interesting)
Linux just seems to be going from strength to strenght while Micro$oft struggle to persuade their (l)users to upgrade to yet another version.
It just goes to show the power of the Open Source 'bazaar' development model.
I am a bit concerned about this GRUB thing, does it replace LILO ? I've only just got the hang of lilo after all these years. I hope all my enrgy has not gone to waste.
Anyone know if this version will have support for the new higher speed USB that is coming out soon ?
been in stores for a while (Score:3, Interesting)
Question about the ISO files (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Question about the ISO files (Score:2, Interesting)
What about ReiserFS? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:step softly (Score:3, Interesting)
Of course I never jump on the bandwagon as soon as something is released. I always wait around for ppl to say something and hear complaints.
The only exception to this is Debian, apt-get upgrade using Sid and haven't had a problem yet ^__^
Re:Without Fail... (Score:2, Interesting)
Switch if you want to - but your reasoning doesn't make any sense. RH 7.1 came out in April. That's 6 months ago.
But I wouldn't abandon 7.1 just yet. Let folks mess with 7.2 and find out what they have to say. Besides, RH isn't worth anything until it's supported by Ximian, therefore, 7.1 is the way to go!
don't understand the need for constant upgrading (Score:2, Interesting)
concern me.
I don't particularly see any need to upgrade
to 7.0, 7.1 or 7.2 for that matter.
What's the big deal?
Re:What about ReiserFS? (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Still no djbdns (Score:4, Interesting)
If you want us to ship djbdns, convince its author to put it under an Open Source license.
The current license is not acceptable.
I'm also surprised about KDE 2.2, since KDE 2.2.1 has been out for quite a while now
KDE is actually pseudo-2.2.1: We took 2.2, and merged all fixes from the stable CVS branch (and a couple of other patches).
Couldn't update to the official 2.2.1 because of the freeze - but the 2.2-* packages in 7.2 have all the fixes from 2.2.1 up to the day before it was released.
The same goes for the kernel version (2.4.7)
Which is actually 2.4.7 plus a lot of bugfixes from later versions, plus ext3, plus new drivers, and more.
Making sure the kernel is highly stable even under extreme load (and longer uptimes) takes time.
Re:Red Hat is not synonymous with Linux. (Score:5, Interesting)
Such as?
LILO has been replaced with GRUB. Why?
Because it has a load of advantages we consider more important than staying with what we've shipped forever.
Sometimes switching one working part with another for only minimal gains is NOT a good idea
You are right about this - and since lilo->grub is not minimal, it doesn't apply to this particular thing.
ipsec, freeS/WAN and RedHat (Score:4, Interesting)
Is there an "official" way to upgrade RH 7.2 to a kernel version with ipsec support (i.e. frees/wan) for European folks? The absence of this feature in RH becomes a more and more serious concern for my company.
Of course we know how to patch and compile a kernel. Maintenance must still be easy, though. Installing a custom kernel on several customer servers also means that we cannot use Redhat's update kernel RPMs but must maintain our own ones, so kernel (and possibly other packages) updates get complicated. It will not possible to respond on security issues as quickly as when using RH kernel RPMs.
It would be a great benefit for European customers if RedHat could at least draw the "official" procedure how to make this RH Linux version ipsec capable and then maintain this procedure as new kernel RPM packages or RedHat Linux versions appear.
Re:Is RH including proprietary sw these days? (Score:3, Interesting)
With the sole exception of Netscape (which will disappear later), it's 100% OS.
And Netscape will disappear with the next release - we're already including Konqueror [konqueror.org], Mozilla [mozilla.org] and Galeon [sf.net] as free (and better) alternatives right now.
Also, what RH specific changes are in this gcc?
It's a stabilized fork of a CVS version. See http://www.bero.org/gcc296.html [bero.org] for a further explanation.
Why isn't gcc-3.01 being distributed? Does it have major issues?
It's included as a preview package, but it's not ready for a standard compiler.
It breaks binary compatibility with the compiler used in prior 7.x releases (which is something we don't do in minor releases), and its C++ part is quite broken ATM (try running a version of KDE that was compiled with gcc 3.0.1 and you'll see what I mean - it crashes at startup).
Re:uh oh (Score:2, Interesting)
Sorry I cannot find now the URL. But this was explained at the local LUG on a Kernel Talk. And I come to respect those folks. They usually know what they are talking about.
So there it goes another piece of FUD against the Linux comunity...
Does someone has the link to Linus interview about this?
Re:ext3, ok but what about reiserfs? (Score:3, Interesting)
Support is compiled into the kernel and the required userland tools are included.
It's not supported by the installer (but existing reiserfs partitions will be mounted) because the kernel team says it's still not 100% ready.
It will be very hard to devfs and reiserfs to succeed if RH makes it difficult
There are currently a number of known security problems with devfs, so making that easy is not a good idea just yet.
Your mom needs RH7.2 (Score:2, Interesting)
RH 7.2 solves a real issue - sometimes (once a month) her harddisk stops working. A hardware error. ext3 makes it possible to start up again without runnin fsck manually. ext3 is the biggest stability improvement for the average end-user.
Lars.
Re:Comments on ISO files and cheap cd sets (Score:3, Interesting)
This is a Europe-only product.
It'll be hard to find it in any other place.
Re:ipsec, freeS/WAN and RedHat (Score:2, Interesting)
On the other hand, ipsec is a well defined standard defined in several RFC documents [freeswan.org]. FreeS/Wan [freeswan.org] is an implementation of it which also allows to communicatie with other systems implementing ipsec (routers).
FreeS/WAN is developed by non-US redidents only and they don't accept even single line patches from US citisens... So at least they think that there still are legal problems - dunno. Anyway, cipe seems to be the small solution where ipsec is the right one (and FreeS/WAN then tries to implement the right one; I don't know with how much success).
AFAIK it would be great if you'd schedule a reconsideration of it for some upcoming release of RedHat Linux.
Thanks!
Re:Stress test time for the ftp servers. (Score:2, Interesting)
It's times like this when mirror.ac.uk crawls to 30Kbytes/sec (usually 8Mbytes/sec on this line) and sunsite hasn't even got it yet, that you've got to wonder if someone should perhaps organise a decent mirroring system
Perhaps a system whereby sysadmins can register to be a mirror site. They'd get their server's IP included in the forward DNS for (say) redhat.mirror.ac.uk, and they'd get a privalidged login to the main mirror.ac.uk servers which give access to files, say 24hrs before their public release.
It would have advantages of:
1. saving mirror.ac.uk from getting quite so crippled
2. saving lots of inter-provider bandwidth
3. SPEED!!!
4. Sysadmins get to mirror as much or as little as they want/can (eg. redhat mirrors need only mirror
5. Sysadmins get their distros first as a reward
Re:I am stoked! (Score:3, Interesting)
It goes like this. (I have no idea how GRUB works, so I'm guessing here). Let's say RH switches over to GRUB completely, and now there's no
But what if, instead of no file existing, a text file (/etc/lilo.conf) existed that explained why its not there, what has replaced it, and how to do everything with the replacement that could be done with its predecessor? This I think would actually be really cool, and it would still be there even if no help documentation was included during the initial install. You could even put some sort of shebang-style string at the beginning of every one of these "evolution" files, so that people who want to get rid of them can issue a simple grep or find command to search and destroy them.