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New Red Hat Linux Beta: Severn

Posted by Hemos on from the coming-at-you dept.

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.

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  1. Torrent file? by jsvesnik · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where's the torrent file?

    1. Re:Torrent file? by Mr_Icon · · Score: 2, Funny

      That was Seth Vidal who is too lazy to get a /. account. :)

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  2. Seven? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didn't RedHat 7 get released already? I am so confused.

    1. Re:Seven? by hafree · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's been at least a month since Redhat 9 was released, shouldn't we be on release 13 or so by now? Of course that would mean that Redhat officially stopped supporting anything prior to 11 or 12 by now...

  3. but but but.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    (heard all over Munich) "Ver ist Klippy?!"

    1. Re:but but but.. by uwmurray · · Score: 2, Funny

      Actually, you didn't get this right.
      It is 'Wo is Klippy?!' 'w' not a 'v'. Babelfish ist kein Freund.

  4. Version numbering by erlando · · Score: 3, Funny

    With RedHat's latest sprint version wise (7.3->8.0->9.0) it's probably a safe bet to say that this release is going to be RedHat 10.0. Or maybe "RedHat X"? Roman numerals are popular this time of year.. ;o)

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    1. Re:Version numbering by setzman · · Score: 2, Funny

      That would be better than RedHat XP...

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    2. Re:Version numbering by GauteL · · Score: 2, Funny

      That is not safe bet to say at all.

      Red Hat 9 was actually a release that broke some backwards compatibility, mainly due to the new kernel threads.

      It might just be that this next release is Red Hat 9.1.

    3. Re:Version numbering by Anixamander · · Score: 2, Funny

      With RedHat's latest sprint version wise (7.3->8.0->9.0) it's probably a safe bet to say that this release is going to be RedHat 10.0. Or maybe "RedHat X"?

      If it is version 10 it will almost surely be called RedHat X, as RedHat 10 would be read by all the ubergeeks as "RedHat 2". This of course also explains why Apple uses the Roman numeral, because if they didn't OS 10 would be read as OS 2, causing IBM, and by extension SCO, to sue them.

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  5. Just so I know... by JZ_Tonka · · Score: 1, Funny
    Is RedHat Evil(tm) or Good(tm)?

    I know Micro$oft is Evil, and Gentoo is Good, and *BSD is good (even if it IS dying), and, but what's the official alignment of RedHat?

    1. Re:Just so I know... by Dachannien · · Score: 3, Funny

      Lawful neutral? ;)

  6. How dare you steal from Redhat! by SHEENmaster · · Score: 4, Funny

    They offer you there software for free, but that's just not good enough for you. The only thing that keeps them going is the knowledge that each new release with cause /. to rape their connections and that of there mirrors. You would take that satisfaction away from them!?

    I wonder if a checksummed p2p system like bittorrent will ever be merged with apt.

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  7. The meaning of Severn by morcheeba · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm not sure if this is what they intended, but this picture comes up with google images... I'll just stick with 8, thank you.

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  8. Re:No Galeon? by Xpilot · · Score: 4, Funny

    I also like the option of a graphical boot... soothes the nerves of less-knowledgable people who will wonder why X, Y, or Z service is coming up.

    I've never understood why this is so. Even back in the day when I was a clueless newbie, I found those messages to be really cool. It was like the computer was doing...cool computery things, just like in the movies.

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  9. Does it come pre-packaged by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    with a SCO license agreement ?

  10. Redhat is HQ'ed in the south, you know (NC) by drgroove · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can just imagine the process of coming up w/ the new release name...

    RH Dev Manager: "Hey y'all - how many lines-a-code did we find copied over from-a UNIX?"

    RH Dev'er: "Urrmmm... looks like about severn er ait to me, hoss."

    RH Dev Mng: "Well'um then, that there's the next ree-leease name then. Severn."

  11. Re:No Galeon? by tomstdenis · · Score: 4, Funny

    Funny or not, same thing here.

    Also keep in mind that things like VESA were still new and shiny when Linux first came about. So at best you would have a 640x480x16color bootup instead of text messages.

    Might as well have them. What I find lacking are the joke messages with useless twirling /-\| thingies...

    like

    pruning IP lateral sensors.......done
    establishing networking matrix...../ :-)

    Just to throw people off. Plus it would be funny to see how many "IT experts" that "read about many things" will go about talking about it. "Yeah, well my Duron 4Ghz can establish the network matrix faster than your 200Mhz ARM box... hahaha!"

    Tom

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  12. Severn, eh? by Darth_brooks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sounds like quite a beast.

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  13. Re:Why Severn? by aug24 · · Score: 2, Funny
    It's a river in England famous for boring people? ;-)

    J.

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  14. Re:"...updated Evolution..." by chabotc · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bad gues, gimp is migrating to gtk2 but is currently still in beta. The latest version (1.3.16) which uses gtk2 can be found here: http://www.gimp.org/devel_ver.html

  15. I can see the support calls now... by jazman · · Score: 5, Funny

    So what version of Red Hat are you using?
    Severn.
    Seven?
    No, Severn.
    You need 9.
    I am using 9.
    You said Seven!
    No, I said Severn. Severn is a version of Nine.
    Click.

    What's the next version going to be called - Sicks? Hey chaps, here are some more great ideas for names: Fayiv, Fower, Thur-hee, Tahoo, Wun, Zilch, Miner Swan.

    1. Re:I can see the support calls now... by Chester+K · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, I said Severn. Severn is a version of Nine.

      It's a marketing ploy, pure and simple. What geek wouldn't want to "beta test" Severn of Nine?

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  16. Packaging by treyb · · Score: 3, Funny

    They should wrap it in a spandex-skinsuit theme, make it boot WINE by default, and call it release Severn of Nine.

  17. No, this is the Southern version of Seven, Severn by Idou · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know how it works . . . "Shutting Down" becomes "Shutt'n DO'n", "ssh" becomes "pipe-DO'n Bo'", and when KDE (err, bluecurve) starts, you hear a fiddle a play'n in the background.

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  18. Re:Actually i preffered RH 8 by DrWhizBang · · Score: 2, Funny

    over RH9, the slownes in RH 9 was very noticable...

    Yes, I have to concurr. although I also found RH8 to be much faster than RH8, RH9 literally crawls in comparison to RH9. I long for the good old days, when RH7 was just as fast as RH7. Vendor like Redhat need to make sure that they can maintain performance within any singel version...

    If you were using RH7, it certainly would have been fast enough to capture that missing "s"...

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  19. Re:No Galeon? by owenb · · Score: 2, Funny

    pruning IP lateral sensors.......done
    establishing networking matrix...../ :-)

    Reticulating splines?

  20. Re:No Galeon? by archen · · Score: 2, Funny

    displaying therapeutic pictures of clouds

    As much as 95 needed to be (re)booted people could use as much therapy as they could get.