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