RedHat 7.3 beta (skipjack) is out 368
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)
Re:X.3 ?? (Score:3, Insightful)
size=ease of use (Score:2, Insightful)
Now many of you may jump on the bandwagon and say "Wait, Linux is not meant to be easy". I'll retort by saying: Red Hat should be easy. If you're going to target users with a desktop application then you don't make things harder. Desktops were invented to make things easier or more efficient to use.
So it seems that if they do make it bigger, perhaps they should make it easier?
size=ease of use
KDE3 (Score:2, Insightful)
What are the cool new features included in 7.3? I guess it's mostly a bug fix release, but their must be some changes. Any improvements to the Redhat configuration tools? I've always liked Redhat better in general, I'm not sure why...but I liked Mandrakes drak tools so much, I switched to MDK.
Re:Where is CUPS? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:X.3 ?? (Score:3, Insightful)
As a sidenote, though I am very excited about gcc 3.1 which branched on Feb 28, I think that RedHat's move is a good one. They can use this time to perhaps plan an 8.0 release that will support x86-64 (Hammer) architecture.
Re:Where is CUPS? (Score:3, Insightful)
Users feel that everything should come standard w/each distribution. Just b/c a distrib is not using X does NOT mean its broken. In fact RH is known for its excellent testing.
Stop being so lazy. Sheesh.
The youngins just need to learn
gcc 3.x (Score:2, Insightful)
Keeping your machine 'pure' (Score:3, Insightful)
> self compiles.
There is a way to have your cake and eat it too. Build your own RPMS with anything you want that didn't ship on the CD or rebuild their packages with different options. If you build it yourself you can know it will run with your libraries and such. Keep the SRPMS around and you can quickly rebuild anything that breaks after the next OS upgrade. Since you are keeping everything managed with RPM your packages get managed in the same way as RH supplied software and everything 'just works."
It isn't that hard anymore. If you can't find a SRPM on rpmfind.net grab the tar.gz and look inside for a
Re:gcc 3.x (Score:3, Insightful)
Releasing a
It's better to just skip 3.0.x and get a 3.1 or 3.2 based distribution out when it's ready.
Re:No Webmin! (Score:2, Insightful)
Course it does:
$ lynx localhost:10000
Re:6.2 was the last clean release (for me, at leas (Score:2, Insightful)
You mean the 'breaks less packages than 3.x and supports more standard C++ features than 2.95.X', compiler that was released from a snapshot of a PUBLIC CVS repository.....
The only thing that the gcc people were annoyed at was the fact that people might think that 2.96 was an official gcc release, as opposed to a RedHat release.
There's nothing wrong with the compiler itself, in fact, RedHat do a very good job of stabalising a product, since they are the ones that REALLY get it out on people's machines.
And regardless of that, they're stuck with it until 8.0 anyway, as they can't break binary compatibility until then.
Now he tells me...... (Score:2, Insightful)
But it is good to see how fast that the grumbles from the natives got all the way up the chain of command and the problem fixed for the future. Way to go!
Kernel 2.4.18? (Score:2, Insightful)
What's going on here? Is 2.4.18 stable enough or did RedHat ported the old VM to 2.4.18?