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Red Hat 7.2 Released
Spirit writes "Red Hat has anounced the release of Version 7.2 distribution with Gnome 1.4 and Nautilus, default ext3 fliesystem and according to ZDnet migration from LILO to GRUB"
Updated by HeUnique:There are some issues to note before upgrading: The kernel that comes with the RH 7.2 is heavily patched 2.4.7 and has been tested quite heavily on fully loaded Linux boxes - so the recommendation is to use it
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
RedHat seems to have broken the addage "Only use the even numbers" with 7.0 (not a very good edition in most folks opinions). And 7.1 was solid, so 7.2 could be dangerous. I think I'll be waiting until a few people install it before upgrading.
Furthermore, RedHat does not support "upgrading" from a Ximian (bka HelixCode) gnome distribution, and with 7.1 at least this failed -- so if you use the much better Ximian distro of gnome as opposed to RedHat's you might want to wait till they have made it 7.2-ready.
If anyone's gone through the upgrade, please post and let us know what problems you have. I'm particularly interested in any with Java. Thanks!
From my previous experience with the RedHat range, I can only come to the assumption that this latest incarnation will be surely even more bloated than the last.
:)
Actually, I think I stopped using RH around v6.1 - blah blah please no "but you don't have to install all the rpm's" flames.
It won't be long before you will have RedHat in one hand and Windows in the other hand and they'll both weigh about the same. Long live bloatware
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That is the single crapest feature in KDE. It is still better than GNOME (but then so's not having a computer). Windowmaker is a real working environment; KDE and GNOME are just toys.
TWW
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I installed Mandrake 7.2 awhile ago, which installed grub. It's a real shame that it actually reads data from the Linux partition. I had deleted my Linux partition, leaving my Win98 partition, and my system wouldn't boot anymore, it just locked up on grub with the text "stage 1 stage 2".
Please excuse me, I'm sure I should have dug through the source code and figured out what was happening in stage2, modified the behavior, recompile, re-install, and everything would have been just fine. But since I didn't have 30 days to bother with it, a FDISK/MBR was happy to solve my problem.
Personally, I find that to be fairly pathetic that a boot loader is doing something can crash it.
RH is blowing a great opportunity with the increase in pricing of XP to stick it to M$.
With RH 7.1 Pro, you got ten machines for 180 days each use of RedHat Network. With RH 7.2 Pro, you get only one machine for 180 days. For a 50 machine LAN, that works out to over US$12000 first year costs ($200 for RH 7.2 Pro, 50 machines/$20 machine/month/12 months + balance of Pro's single machine "entitlement" for 6 months @ $20/month).
Ridiculous! These prices make the boys in Redmond smile, and my clients cry. They're asking about alternatives, even bringing up XP as a potential new desktop! It's a lot easier for some of my clients to spend capital on a mass upgrade than it is for operating expenses, which is where the "entitlement" subscription fees fall.
RH, you guys blew it big this time.