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)
X.3 ?? (Score:3, Interesting)
Size? (Score:2, Interesting)
~nab
No Webmin! (Score:2, Interesting)
KDE 3.0 rc3 (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Where is CUPS? (Score:5, Interesting)
Comment removed (Score:3, Interesting)
What? No ISOs on RHN? Grrr..... (Score:3, Interesting)
So I gleefully logon to grab a set of beta ISOs and get some real value out of this subscription and what do I find as far as 7.3 beta goes? Jack. :-(
Come on Redhat...
When 7.3 final comes out, will it show up on rhn at the same time it goes on the public ftp site at least?
Version names (Score:5, Interesting)
Carrie Fisher and Alec Guiness were both cast emembers of Star Wars
the fisher and wolverine are both members of the weazel family
The U.S.S. Wolverine and U.S.S. Seawolf are both submarines
The Seawolf was the first sub powered by a liquid metal cooled reactor. It was completed exactly 10 years after the Roswell incident
Enigma is the name of a UFO museum in Roswell, NM
Skipjack and Enigma are both encryption algorithms
Reference: Freshrpms [freshrpms.net]
Re:X.3 ?? (Score:4, Interesting)
I had hoped to move them from 6.2 to 7.2 but it still isn't ready for end users, even with an errata CD that is fast approaching a 2 disc set. It is common knowledge that that anything labeled
SSN Skipjack (Score:4, Interesting)
Also FYI, the Albacore has been made into a museum, and is the BEST submarine tour I've ever been on, better than any WWII boats, and better than the Nautilus. The WWII boats are too old and worn, and the Nautilus is all behind plexiglass, and they've torn it up too much putting stairs and such in. The albacore is a single level, pretty much accessable from stem to stern.
Former submarine nut, until someone told me in second grade that I would be too tall to be on one. Still, it got me to read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea at age 9.
Re:Linuxconf (Score:1, Interesting)
Open Office: it'd be great to include it. (Score:2, Interesting)
Yes, I know that Red Hat isn't _primarily_ marketing to desktops, but even system administrators and and others need to read and edit Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files. For example, there are FAR too many documents (including technical material) that are only available in those formats. KWord is quite ineffective at importing Word, and Abiword can only handle very simple Word documents. Gnumeric does a good job with Excel spreadsheets, but I know of no other open source program that can handle powerpoint files. If you don't want it to use up space on your hard drive, don't install Open Office, but for many it would be a BIG help to have Open Office ready-to-install on the CD's.
What about Enlightenment ? (Score:3, Interesting)
I hope you'll include it in the next release.
Red Hat Network Issues (Score:2, Interesting)
Then it happened.
While updating the SNMP errata that came out a few weeks back, I noticed it took an inordinate amount of time to actually *do* the update. Curious as to why, I jumped into the box, only to find that my quite, happy litle server had X, Gnome, EsounD, and about 100 other X or GUI-based RPM's installed (our servers run with no X features, including the libs).
The Red Hat network provides *no* logs (that I could find) about what it has done, so it took me some time to figure out *why* the Red Hat network had decided to add 100 additional RPM's to my box. Then it hit me:
- The snmp errata also included ethereal, and ethereal-gnome, both X packages, even though they were *not* installed on the server itself!
Apparently, the rhn had decided to install the dependancies for ethereal (basically, performing an rpm -U instead of an rpm -F). I informed rhn feedback and support of the issue, but never actually heard back from them.
So, unfortunately, I have no choice but to cancel the 100 workgroup licenses we were purchasing. I can't risk this happening to our other servers randomly, especially when RH doesn't even appear to want to correct the issue.
*sigh*
Postfix *and* vsftp (Score:3, Interesting)
Yes !!!
postfix-1.1.4-3.i386.rpm
vsftpd-1.0.1-4.i386.rpm
I must be dreaming, postfix and vsftp in the next redhat. I am going to upgrade my servers to 7.3 when it is ready. Yes, definitely, yes, going to upgrade ...