RedHat 7.3 beta (skipjack) is out

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)

Comments

Re:Where is CUPS?

[bero-rh]

CUPS 1.1.14 is included, and Qt, KDE and wine are compiled with libcups support.

Version names

[omega9]

I'm sure most of you know that Red Hat's versions names are all related to each other in some way. Here's a breakdown starting from 7.0:

• 7.0-Guinness
  
• 7.0.90-Fisher
  Carrie Fisher and Alec Guiness were both cast emembers of Star Wars
  
• 7.0.91-Wolverine
  the fisher and wolverine are both members of the weazel family
  
• 7.1-Seawolf
  The U.S.S. Wolverine and U.S.S. Seawolf are both submarines
  
• 7.1.93-Roswell
  The Seawolf was the first sub powered by a liquid metal cooled reactor. It was completed exactly 10 years after the Roswell incident
  
• 7.1.94-Roswell (no name change)
  
• 7.2-Enigma
  Enigma is the name of a UFO museum in Roswell, NM
  
• 7.2.91-Skipjack (7.3 beta)
  Skipjack and Enigma are both encryption algorithms
  

Reference: Freshrpms

Re:X.3 ??

[jmorris42]

Ok, but PLEASE pass the word upline to make it a .3! RedHat 4.2 was rock solid, 5.2 was rock solid and so was 6.2. Haven't met anyone who thinks 7.2 is stable yet. Just yesterday I logged onto my laptop and had no icons along the left. Signed out and back on and they came back. All of the fifty some odd boxes that mere mortals use here on my site are still running 6.2 because of odd crap like that.

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 .0 is to be avoided on production machines so doing an 8.0 release would mean we would have to keep patching up 6.2 for another year.

SSN Skipjack

[dpilot]

As someone else mentioned, the Skipjack is/was a submarine. It was the first nuclear submarine with an Albacore-type hull. In essence the first 'true' submarine that was truly optimized for underwater, and not a surface ship that temporarily sinks.

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.