New Red Hat Linux Beta: Severn

JofCoRe writes "Just got a message from the redhat watch list today, announcing the availability of a new beta, called "Severn". Some snippets from the announcement: What's its development status? "It doesn't seem too horrendously in flux. Difficult at this moment to make a specific diagnosis." Among other things, SEVERN has: a new graphical boot, GCC 3.3, an updated 2.4.21 kernel, updated Evolution and Mozilla, More information about the beta can be found at rhl.redhat.com. And the Release notes are found here. Looks like they have it currently labeled as v9.0.93." Update: 07/21 15:11 GMT by H : It's 3.2.3 GCC, not 3.3, as I had above.

Comments

Re:Not so exciting

[RedHat Rocky]

Nah, once you wake up and realize Mac sucks, you just put Gentoo on it. :)

Re:The end of RedHat as we know it

[drinkypoo]

Redhat has never been stable. It's always had stupid problems and security holes all its own. If you were expecting stability out of redhat, you were expecting too much.

If you want known good stable software, you're supposed to use debian, with only the stable apt tree or wtfever it's called.

Redhat is a commercial distribution, even when it's free, and thus it's not about good or stable - even if you disagree with my first paragraph, it's about making money. They do what people will pay for. They think people will pay for apache 2, I'm sure people have been asking for it, and now they get it. And so do you. That's what you get for supporting a commercial distribution.

It would be nice if gentoo's release tree were made up only of stable versions, and then we could say this of gentoo also. It's true you have to build your own packages on gentoo, but if you have the same architecture all around (or are willing to accept a less-optimized build) then you only have to build them once, or at least only once for each architecture you decide to optimize/build for.