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

What a crapfest

[SumDeusExMachina]

No matter what 90% of the Linux-purchasing public says, I'm not going to use Redhat. There are certain decisions that they made that I feel compromise performance and usability in the name of good politics and such.

For example, they're using ext3. Blech. It is a journaling system tacked on to the old ext2 system, which seems a little too much like the evolution of FAT to me.

Secondly, GNOME? Can they give any rational reason for choosing GNOME over KDE2? Personally, I've compared them and found GNOME... lacking... in several areas, such as the absence of a decent browser (Konquerer) and the fact that the whole thing was written by masochists with C. Who writes a GUI in C, for crying out loud!? By the way, folks, Nautilus is dead. The fact that they went out of business so quickly ought to tell you something about their product. Also, I really like how everything in KDE is integrated, so that I can, for example, type in a URL (be it FTP or HTTP or whatever else is recognized), and it will fire up the appropriate program and go there (like Windows Explorer, but much better).

I think you can count me out on this distro, for now I'm sticking with SuSE (which several rigorous reviewers prefer over Redhat anyway), with ReiserFS and KDE2.

Re:What a crapfest

[rosewood]

The whole beuty of Linux is that you can go be happy with your KDE etc. and I can do fine and dandy in Gnome! Neither of us have to compromise! Yea, now Ive been trolled.

Re:What a crapfest

[deaddeng]

please moderate this whining drooler down. What a pile of eurofag drivel. reiserfs? It's in there. Xfs? Yup. KDE 2.2.1? Uh-huh. Please, catch a freaking clue before you spout off and look like the idiot you are.

Re:GRUB ?

[bero-rh]

Because it's better. Some of the reasons why grub was chosen:

• Possibility to boot a kernel or device not listed in the boot manager config - great for debugging
• Don't need to reinstall grub after updating a kernel
• Better support for non-Linux OSes
• No more blocky 320x200 boot graphics

It's the NIH syndrom...(NT)

[Bluefire]

nuff said