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New Red Hat Beta Available
nd writes "A new beta of Red Hat is out, available at the Red Hat FTP site. This presumably pre-6.1 release is named Lorax, with quite a bit of new features (note: this is beta and is NOT intended for everyone). Perhaps the biggest is their new installation program, Anaconda, featuring gtk+ and text interfaces. Even better, Anaconda is GPLed. Mirror list available here. Check it out. "
I feel sorry for all those that insist on buying the deluxe boxed sets for every new version of RH. Now, don't get me wrong. I appreciate the fact that they release new versions so often that they are supposedly up-to-date in the way of stability.. But from what I've seen with 5.2 & 6.0, it doesn't seem to be getting any better. the beta for 6.0 was out for only a couple weeks before the final was released, and half the methods of install never worked (at least when I tried it), such as forgetting to include parallel port modules (?) for install, but saying it's supported? HTTP and FTP install seemed not to want to work at all. And just look at the redhat errata page for 6.0. It's great that they at least update their mistakes and I know RedHat obviously doens't make most of these programs, but perhaps it would be nice to test all these bleeding-edge packages instead of waiting for some security organization to tell them there's another buffer overflow warning in their version of something?
The reasoning was that /opt is for "after-market" packages, ones not part of the distribution itself. Since KDE is standard in the redhat 6.0 distribution, it was kept out of /opt for that reason.
This is a big pet peeve of mine with respect to most all unix setups, the way they want to throw everything in a few common directories. Nested directories and symlinks are fast now, we're out of the days of washtub sized disks. Can we get with the program and start installing things in their own directory more often and just use symlinks if we need the executables or configs in one place? I understand there's a package manager that does that, but that it's also really quite primitive compared to rpm or apt.
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.
> There was a guy in this thread that just said *BSD has good security, and RedHat doesn't. ANd this post was labeled as "Troll". This guy didn't swear, didn't curse. It stated it's opinion.
Might have had to do with the fact that he didn't substantiate the claim in any way. He's probably right, but just throwing out an advocacy flame and running off without substantiating it should be grounds for marking down. That includes MS flames, IMHO.
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.
I also knew that many third parties were making software that runs better or only on RedHat linux.
Whoa right there. Would you mind backing this up? Red Hat Linux is still Linux. How is it even possible to write a program that runs "better" on one distribution over another, aside from perhaps taking better advantage over a version of library that might ship with one distribution and not another.
I suppose you could write your program to look for key "Red Hat" signature files, and if those don't exist, program in a few delays or randomly crash, but do you really think someone would do this?
Please elaborate.
A scan of the mirrors in the com/net/edu/gov/ca domains revealed that a handful have the Lorax release. Here's the list I compiled. Others might also have it, but are overloaded right now, so I can't check.
ftp://ftp.aklug.org/pub/redhat/mirror/ lorax/
ftp://cwrulug.cwru.edu/pub/ftp.red hat.com/lorax/
ftp://ftp.eecs.umic h.edu/pub/linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/lorax/
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/p ub/Linux/distributions/redhat/lorax/
ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.e du/pub/redhat/lorax/
ftp://ftp.snoopy.net/pub/mirrors/red hat/lorax/
So is there an easy way to upgrade a 6.0 system via FTP? I could manually download all the RPMs for the packages I have installed, and then upgrade them, but that's a pain. I want to be able to do something like:
% upgrade ftp://ftp.favoritemirror.com/.../RPMS/
Redhat's betas now have code names, Microsoft betas have always had code names. I just find it interesting that they would beta something other than a completely new version. I may very well be talking out my ass but it looks like all of Redhat's money has made them think more like their competition.
I'm a loner Dottie, a Rebel.
They didn't. At least, not, that I noticed. I booted 6.0 from CD on both Intel and Sparc without problems.
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