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Red Hat Linux 9 Release And Interview
Gentu writes "Red Hat Linux 9 has been released to the official mirrors, brace for impact! Additionally, OSNews features an interview with Red Hat Linux's manager, Matt Wilson and they discuss everything from mp3/dvd playback, to Randr, dependancy policies and more." Also on the Red Hat front, DdJ writes "So, I noticed that Red Hat's stock price jumped up a bit this morning, and checked the news to find out why. It turns out they've released a new portal product and a new CMS product. Both appear to be based on Java/Tomcat, which would mean it's not Zope-based or Zend-based. But, they're supposedly open source. Anyone have any further info on this stuff yet?" Update: 04/08 05:24 GMT by T : Don't forget that the new Red Hat release is available through BitTorrent, too.
Here's a quote from an article that indicates that the source code is include with the two products:
"Red Hat promised that its CMS solution could get a company up to speed with content management in as little as two months. The J2EE-compliant software will be delivered with source code included, and provides a workflow-based engine for managing content on the intranet, extranet and Internet settings."
The article doesn't discuss whether it is Tomcat based or not, but did grow froma product acquired by RedHat from Ars Digita around 15 months ago. It will be initially available on Red Hat Linux, IBM AIX and Sun Solaris. (News from the AIIM Conference in MA.)
-- Rick
I've been using RH 9 on my laptop and Home PC for the last couple of days and if you don't mind the minor problems of no mp3 or DVD playback out-of-the-box and the new threading (and glibc 2.3.2) really causing problems with Wine...it's a great release. Much more refined then the 8 release (and the menus make more since to use)
To get around the Wine problem you need to "export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 " and "rm -rf ~/.wine/wineserver*" The Wineserver has been resolved with WineHQ's CVS and the other branches are picking up now. The threading problems with the kernel might take some time...
"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson
There's nothing illegal about it. What would be illegal is if the persion hosting them made changes but kept all the trademarked stuff (mostly logos). If you don't modify them then it's legal. If you do modify them, just take out the trademarked stuff (make it obvious that they aren't the official RH distributed isos) and it's still legal. :)
I'd have to say that the menu organization and the theme configuration alone make it much better then 8.0. Instead of one "Extras" group on the menu, each group has it's own "More Applications" menu. (That might not be a correct quote, but you get the idea). I can now install icon themes and completely change the look/feel using the Theme app from the preferences menu. (RH 8 didn't seem to have an easy way to change the icon theme, so the menus always used the BlueCurve icons)
Go here: http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html For the bittorent d/l - btw works fine with bittorrent++ too.
Linux has long had inferior support for threading. (please don't let this start a flamewar, it's what I've read over and over and over). So large multi-threaded applications (like huge databases) ran better on solaris than linux. NPTL is a new threading library which improves Linux's threading support. The downside is that a bunch of stuff doesn't work with it yet. If you're having trouble with, for example, Java 1.3 apps, you can set the LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable to "2.4.1" or "2.2.5" as a workaround.
Help distribute the load.. use BitTorrent
When it's installed, click the following link to begin downloading: RedHat 9
ArsDigita never made "Open"ACS. ArsDigita created ACS as an open source toolkit supporting the Oracle database. The OpenACS project came about when ArsDigita decided to make their Java project which is what has become Redhat CCM.
Red Hat purchased all of ArsDigita's assets and this project belongs entirely to them now.
OpenACS currently is a TCL/AOLServer based project that supports Oracle and PostgreSQL.
RedHat has made what looks like an effort to reduce confusion by renaming the "Red Hat Database" project as "PostgreSQL - Red Hat Edition" http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/
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Redhat's GUI installer isn't the greatest, in my experience.
Installing 8.0 and 9.0 in most scenarios I've dealt with weren't that difficult, and anaconda had no problem detecting the monitor and video to run the GUI install, but several times it just didn't work out. I've experienced snafus trying to install 8.0 on a brand new out of the box HP machine from CompUSA. Intel P4 2-something Ghz, 512MB ram, so on, so forth. The installer had some sort of issue with the monitor or video card. Since failure was not an option, I did it the hard (not really) way, and installed in text mode. No big deal, install went great, Xconfiguration was just fine.
Snafus happened with a Micron PC with an AMD Athlon something or other and an Nforce chipset with integrated what-have-yous. Installed in text mode, after that it was easy as pie. Unfortunately the machine was unstable (probably a faulty power supply), it developed a nasty habit of rebooting or freezing in the middle of navigating Apache.org (apparently when running windows previously similar behaviour was exhibited).
Moral of the story: If you want it bad enough to actually pay attention to what you're doing and the pretty install doesn't work, do what Windows can't, and text install. It's basically just as clean and smooth as the GUI, you just have to navigate with the keyboard a little more than with the mouse. No big loss. Xconfiguration and testing are carried off with no problems for the most part with no problems.
Beware, of course, if you have a POS monitor that's so old you can't even find the refresh rates in the specifications on the web. Xconfiguration is a bit more difficult there (so far I've had no luck) and you're SOL if you can't get past the no GUI install (Windows 98 had no problem installing and using the POS ancient Panasonic monitor).
One more thing: Install on a Dell P4 1.3 with 128MB RDRAM was fine, even upgrading from an existing Redhat 7.2 installation. Reconfiguring the video settings within Xwindows was nice and smooth in 9.0, while I did not have the time/inclination to figure the same out in 7.2. Bluecurve is nice though, for a windows manager.
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The problem you are facing is the thrid-party packages depending on other packages, rather than other files. The RPM format supports giving a dependency of /path/to/perl/module.pm instead of bobs-perl-package. If the apps are packaged conformant to the LSB (module.pm is in the standard location) then it doesn't matter if you installed it from source, freds-perl-package, or bobs-perl-package. So your thrid-party Eterm package was done incorrectly, which is what the article was referring to.