RedHat 7.3 beta (skipjack) is out

Just saw in Red Hat's FTP's - Redhat 7.3 (codename:skipjack) is available for download. There aren't lots of changes there, but you'll find that RedHat 7.3 comes with KDE 3.0 (rc3 is on this beta), you'll need to remove the Ximian Gnome before upgrade, and in general - read the release notes before testing this release. As always, don't try it on your main Linux partition, and use the mirrors. Annoucment is here (thanks to Linux Weekly News)

"Skipjack"? Noooo!!

[kcbrown]

It's a plot by the NSA to eavesdrop on everyone's encrypted communications! Don't buy it!!

Oh, wait, this is Skipjack the distribution, not Skipjack the algorithm. Never mind...

...Unless RedHat is giving us a hint that the NSA had some "influence" on this distribution...

Oh, my, in my paranoia I just don't know what to do!

:-)

Re:Distro size

[Anonymous Coward]

They have integrated Internet Explorer into the OS this release.

Re:What about..

[bero-rh]

Rawhide [redhat.com] is the only truly e XP erimental release we make...

Re:What about zlib

[dead_penguin]

Sure, the zlib stuff has been fixed in *whatever the release will be called*.

You're really getting annoyed by all of the version number questions, aren't you? ;) This is only slashdot; if you tell us we can keep a secret!

In all seriousness, though, your presence here and the answers you provide are really appreciated by myself and probably many others. Thank you!

robo-bero

[ahde]

does redhat have a dozen people all reading slashdot and answering questions with the same login

the real bero is probably still busy defending the choice to include gcc-2.96 on usenet

Re:What? No ISOs on RHN? Grrr.....

[augustz]

Ya, I went ahead and got basic service partly because of the "Instant ISO's". So imagine my surprise when the last beta never showed up, and when I went to check the instant ISO page there was nothing on there yet for this one either.

Let's suppose for a second that people who are paying monthly fees for support actually use Redhat, perhaps on a server farm even. And therefore, out of the universe of RedHat users, are probably going to be interested in doing some testing of the beta's as they come out.

I complained about this before, but it's good to see it on Slashdot.

The response I got was "Oh, wait. Pensacola is only in Beta, it cannot be downloaded through RHN." to quote the email.

Folks need to realize at least historically, those Instant downloads were a) actually not very fast at all, and b) didn't carry beta isos and c) might not actually be up until the rest of the world has gotten them and it's trivial to pull from a mirror.

I'm hoping this will change. It's simple to do, and folks paying are likely to appreciate it. And while I may think it's neat, telling your boss you couldn't download the RedHat beta from RedHat (who you pay thousands to) and instead had to download it from some server in Belgium is going to raise a few eyebrows.

Re:robo-bero

[bero-rh]

Oops, I've been caught. Ok, time to tell the truth. I'm actually a shell script; a combination of wget, grep, cat FAQ and
line 119: syntax error: unexpected end of file