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RedHat 6.0 is Out
Jan Kautz wrote in to tell us that Red Hat 6.0 has begun
appearing on the mirrors, so all you mad hatters can
cruise on it, avoid the traffic, and download the latest.
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http://donut.tho.org/redhat-6.0 or A HREF="ftp://donut.tho.org/pub/redhat-6.0/
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
http://www.redhat.com/mirrors.html
Has all the mirrors that are officially known to redhat.
LK
Upgrade to 6.0, or keep the uptime?:
12:31pm up 319 days, 0:40, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
In experiementing with problems
with the Appletalk module in kernel 2.0.x,
I tried to use RawHide 5.9 to get up to kernel
2.2 with the appropriate package modifications;
however, the kerner RPM as shipped was larger
than 640k, and nearly blew my 486 to chunks.
Does anyone know if 6.0 kernel RPM is made
safe for 486 or lower users?
"Pinky, you've left the lens cap of your mind on again." - P&TB
"I can see my house from here!" - ST:
Bob Young will be attending an online chat onm =abc_bobyoung
Abc News's website (abcnews.com) today at 2:00PM
EST(?).
The URL they give is:
http://chat.abcnews.go.com/chat/chat.dll?roo
Just thought you might be interested, you can go ask
him a bunch of questions about 6.0.
http://www.news.com/ News/Item/0,4,0-35646,00.html?st.ne.lh..ni
Main new features:
RPM 3.0 *does* do disk space checking now.
--Donnie
RPM has been updated to verion 3.0, available here.
Christopher A. Bohn
cb
Oooh! What does this button do!?
Using precompiled kernels from RPMs is usually risky at best. You end up with a kernel that has alot of stuff you don't need and lacks a few things that may be useful to you. I'd recommend downloading the kernel source and reading the documentation to find out what dependicies are needed if you don't already know. Those can be installed as RPMs just fine, and I'm pretty sure 5.9 has them all. Once you do that, compile the kernel yourself. It isn't difficult at all, just do the following from the directory you untarred it to: /boot directory and add into /etc/lilo.conf. As long as you only select what you need in menuconfig it should be just fine on your 486.
make menuconfig
make dep ; make clean ; make bzImage
You will then have a nice new kernel that you can move to your
This is NOT meant as a troll.
/etc/apt/sources.list, fire up dselect or apt, and then use my new software (which, btw, has just been installed into my menu for KDE in X, automatically.)
/dev/null. I just dig Debian, and felt the Debian team deserved a pat on the back. :) Good job, guys (and gals!)
I am a long-time RedHat user who, while waiting for 6.0, ended up trying out Debian. Though it required a _tad_ more work to get up and running properly, I must say that I now have an incredible system. dselect and apt are wonderful, and allow me to add and remove software extremely easily. The days of searching the net for lone RPMs are gone; now, I simply add one line to
If the mirrors are too busy, you might want to give Debian a try. I didn't think I'd be that impressed, but I was wrong; I dig it.
RedHat is still good. I am not saying it sucks; all flames to
I am currently downloading Redhat 6.0 from
ftp.redhat.com. I am starting with the rpms. Everyone can get it my copy
from ftp://ftp.okcforum.org/pub/linux/redhat-6.0/
Havoc Penington, the bane of my Linux desktop.
damnit.. what about freebsd reporting. people actually do use it.
just curious...
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ping -f 255.255.255.255 # if only
The following is an email reply from someone at RedHat concerning the new release:
Chris Esler wrote:
>
> I have redhat 5.2 already. But, I have seen on several ftp
> sites of a new version called starbuck (5.9 I believe). I was wondering
> if you are offering it on cd, as my 56k modem will not do justice for
> the ftp install.
>
> Thanks
We expect to release our new version of Red Hat Linux sometime within
the next 2 to 3 weeks. I suggest that you check our website every
Monday morning for an official release announcement.
Best Regards
Alice