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Red Hat Linux 7.3 Released
qurob was the first of many readers to submit
that Red Hat 7.3 has been released.
Press release doesn't contain any surprises, just lists a bunch of stuff thats
included with the dist. (Evolution, Mozilla, Apache). So go find a mirror if
you're a Red Hat runner. Update: 05/06 14:05 GMT by T : christooley helpfully points out this list of mirrors.
HERE is a link to whats new in this release.
I've put up a list of mirror servers that are known to be fully synced with the release here :
http://freshrpms.net/mirrors/valhalla.html
I've also already rebuilt a pre-configured apt and its reposiroty for use with Valhalla, as well as many custom packages (lame, gkrellm, glimmer, nessus, xmame...)
Having already tested it a bit, I must say this release looks darn good and stable so far! Maybe it's because there are fewer changes than usual (which explains this being 7.3 and not 8.0).
Matthias
Alright, it is probably a typo in their release notes. The full package list says Mozilla 0.9.9 . Way better.
Redhat only increment the major version number if the release will break binaries compatability.
I've got a fever and the only prescription is more COBOL.
The story (as I've heard it, mostly just speculation) is that 8.0 will come when there are enough changes to justify some major breakage in compatibility. I guess the new version of gcc isn't where it needs to be for Red Hat to switch to it, nor is GNOME 2 ready. No kernel 2.6.x, no new glibc, etc... Everything else (even KDE3 I guess) is considered to be more evolutionary, rather than revolutionary.
The 7.3 version number indicates that the release is a incremental upgrade from (the excellent Redhat 7.2), w/o major feature changes.
It's my understanding that Redhat considers all their numbered non-beta releases to be stable and production ready. Their 7.0 release had some major component upgrades which gave their x.0 releases a bad wrap for some people, however, the issues (with GCC, security fixes) were fixed timely in the form of downloadable upgrades. The 7.x series has been great and rock-solid on the desktop (I've been using 7.1 and 7.2 as my desktop at home), and I'm looking forward to trying 7.3.
I have our Red Hat Test Drive system updated now to Red Hat 7.3. As always, accounts with us are free, and you get access to a number of different systems. Try out the latest releases of operating systems on our hardware before you commit it to your own!
Error in the announcement. It's actually 0.9.9.
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RHAT also employs Owen Taylor and Havoc Pennington, two of the main developers of GTK and Gnome.
If you do just a "standard" (workstation) install, you only need Disc 1.
If I remember correctly, server installs require more than that.
Personally, I just get Disc 1, and use rpmfind.net whenever I need a given server.
Jouster
If someone could help me check out my bandwidth that would be great:
n ux / .3/
http://toughguy.caltech.edu/pub/linux/redhat/li
thanks,
chad
Hey I have no problem running apt-get on RH. If you cared to search enough you would have found you can get apt-get for Red Hat 7.X from:
http://freshrpms.net/apt/
I have been underwhelmed by Red Hat's packaging of KDE in the past. For example, in a boxed release (either 7.1 or 7.2), kdehelp's "back" and "forward" buttons didn't work. When KDE 2.2.2 RPMs were released, they helpfully included (and required) a version of Qt that froze the desktop: I had to disable klipper. The current KDE3 RPMs for RH 7.2 from Red Hat have their own glitches: ksplash goes kblooie at startup, and konqueror seems to have this big memory leak that bloats its footprint over time. I wonder if anyone at Red Hat even tries to use KDE.
How is KDE3 running on RH 7.3? Does Konq still have that memory leak?
Much faster than the mirrors I've tried - check it out.
they have rmap and o(1) sheduler. and a bunch of other stuff too :) and, most importantly, the obviously very effective stresstesting.
The easiest and supported way of upgrading from one release to another is of course using the installer. Just get the cd:s, pop them in and select "upgrade existing install". This is supported and will also take care of interrelease changes (like boot loader change, ext3 migration etc.), which most hacks for upgrading that only updates packages won't. Granted, there seems to be few of those changes this time, but I'd recommend the CD upgrade method any day.
GNU/Linux. The Freshmaker.
It's still included.
Both Konqueror and Mozilla are better for most stuff by now, but unfortunately, Netscape 4.x is still the only browser that does Java without the need of shipping a not legally redistributable JDK.
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So I guess joining the redhat network worked out pretty well. I'm downloading the iso images in parallel at the capacity of my cable modem.
It's based on 1.1.3 allright, but it's patched against that bug.
They just ported the patch from 1.1.4 to 1.1.3
My mirror still has some 30 Mbps of free bandwidth, so if you are in Europe, you can try to download from it.
-Yenya
--
While Linux is larger than Emacs, at least Linux has the excuse that it has to be. --Linus
Like Bero said, the above would appear to state that because RedHat ships gcj they cannot ship JDK.
;-)
c kages_professional/index_all.html.
I am quite sure that the paragraph in question is not aimed at other packages such gcj or kaffe but rather disallows that a vendor adds classes intended to replace core classes of Sun's Java implementation thus creating an incompatible version of Java.
May be so, I'm not a SuSE user, but in that case I'm guessing SuSE doesnt ship gcj, Jikes nor Kaffe...
Enough guessing
SuSE 8.0 ships with Sun J2SE 1.3.1, IBM JDK 1.3.0, jikes and GCJ according to their package list at: http://www.suse.de/de/products/suse_linux/i386/pa
-- kryps