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RedHat 7.2 Beta: Roswell
LinuxNews.pl writes: "Few days ago RedHat uploaded new Beta release of their distro -
Roswell. If you want to find out more about it just go to the LinuxNews.pl"
And I won't even make a snide comment about how I haven't run Red Hat in 2 years!
If you don't like the compiler, take a look at http://www.bero.org/gcc296.html and then fix your applications.
;) ).
There are 2 reasons why we're still using 2.96 even though 3.0 has been released.
The first is binary compatibility - gcc 3.0 is not binary compatible with anything else, and we don't break binary compatibility between minor releases.
The second is that 2.96 is way more stable than the 3.0 release (though the current 3.0 branch in CVS works somewhat better). If you've ever tried compiling KDE with gcc 3.0, you'll know what I mean.
I don't think you can come up with any program that uses correct code and doesn't work with gcc 2.96 - if you can, report it so we can fix it. If you can't, don't complain.
The final will include KDE 2.2 and a proper compiler (namely 2.96
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Actually, any news about a new Redhat for Alpha?
;)
7.1 was released, 7.2 will be. I could tell you the release date, but I'd have to kill you afterwards.
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GNOME 1.4.x.. ... XFree 4.1.x.. nautulus(sp).. mozilla.. new config tools eventually phazing out linuxconf... easy GUI ISP dial tool..
I am running 7.1 right now and except for a few setup issues it is actually pretty good.
Hopefully they'll put mozill 9.3 in or the latest version of mozilla at the time of release...
Only 'flamers' flame!
Well, if the current discussions taking place in linux-kernel are anything to go by, it provides a journalling FS that doesn't corrupt your data, which can't be said of Rieser at the moment.
The ability to get a journaling FS trivially is actually a very useful one. One incentive to use journalling is to avoid long recovery times for big partitions. If you have big partitions, say 100GB, which is easier - finding a spare 100GB while you do a mkfs for resierfs, or simply poking ext2 a bit and magically aquiring ext3 in place?
Moreover, ext3 provides some more journalling choices than Rieser.
RedHat do provide Rieser as an option, and have since 7 as an install-time FS. But there's no way to convert an extisting ext2 partition to RieserFS.
Funny, I submitted a story on PCI 3.0 (Intel's Arapahoe interface) to replace the existing PCI bus. His reason for rejecting it was "he had others who already submitted it, and was sitting on those waiting to post it." This was on Thursday of last week... I would have thought people would like to know what's going on for the future of computers, not just when Taco feels he needs to bash RedHat (even though Slackware is superior :-) ).
Why on Earth would you want to download an ISO over a dial-up connection? Just update the packages that have changed and you'll end up with the essentially the same thing as the new version. Or you could pay for it. $50 is a lot less than the cost in pain involved in downloading 650MB over a dial-up connection.
My only political goal is to see to it that no political party achieves its goals.
The X.2 releases of Redhat are usually pretty refined. There is not much ground breaking stuff in here, just evolution of the existing packages (gcc 3.0 is not used by default, just included in addition to 2.96).
2.4.6 is now included, as is Xfree 4.1.0 and Gnome 1.4
RH 7.1 is already a pretty nice distribution. It will be interesting to see what the installer changes look like.
This happens to be my fault.
;) We haven't come up with a way to work more than 24 hours a day, but I'll keep trying. ;)
Or rather, it's because I didn't have the time to build the packages when the beta was current (if you've ever worked for a linux distributor, you know there are more important things to do a couple of days before a feature freeze...), and I don't think it makes much sense to build them now (now that the beta is pretty much obsolete).
That's precisely why I chose to put a recent CVS snapshot that should be pretty close to the 2.2 release in Roswell.
If you don't like it, send some of your spare time to bero@redhat.com.
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ok, I'll answer this...
If you are coming from Windows with zero knowledge of Linux - them you might try Mandrake at first. Mandrake is much better suited to people who don't know linux and don't want to mess with the command line...
Now - in terms of usability tests - both GNOME and KDE are doing usability tests. Sun did it for GNOME and the KDE team did look at the Sun results and they did their own on LinuxTag in europe and keep doing so in shows - if you're going to LinuxWorld - then you're welcome to visit the KDE booth and make your remarks - comments are always welcome.
As for your comment "can't see the forest for the trees" - I know exactly what you mean, been there before - and I know lots of others did - and they give advice here and there about usability.
You are of course always welcome to join KDE or GNOME team and give advice or a hint or participate in the desktop enviroment development - people that can point out some wrong GUI decision are always welcome - as long as they are willing to EXPLAIN what is wrong and suggest an alternative (programming knowledge is not necessary)
Hetz (Heunique)