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

Comments

Re:Red Hat is not synonymous with Linux.

[bero-rh]

oddball decisions like the ones we're seeing in 7.2

Such as?

LILO has been replaced with GRUB. Why?

Because it has a load of advantages we consider more important than staying with what we've shipped forever.

• grub knows your filesystem. This means you can boot kernels you haven't listed in its config file (great for recovery, for example).
• You don't need to reinstall grub every time you've modified its config file. Among other things, that means kernel updates can now add themselves to the boot loader. One of the big problems support was faced with in earlier (LILO based) releases was the number of people updating their kernel and forgetting to adapt /etc/lilo.conf and/or run /sbin/lilo.
• It looks nicer (no more blocky 320x200 graphic at bootup)
• It has better support for booting other OSes

Sometimes switching one working part with another for only minimal gains is NOT a good idea

You are right about this - and since lilo->grub is not minimal, it doesn't apply to this particular thing.