the people who are going to benefit from e16 are people who aren't running gnome. the way redhat ships pretty much relies on gnome or kde running, and someone who is concerned enough to customize what wm they are running and decides against running both gnome and kde is probably capable of getting an e16 rpm. one nice thing about this is that the e15 rpm can have good gnome/kde friendly settings and the e16 rpm can be setup for more of an enlightenment only install.
try to be more open minded about decisions that are made by linux distros, they really are less political than they seem at first glance
iso is a the format of the data on a cdrom. putting an iso online like this allows people to download the ~600MB file and burn their own copy. while some people (openbsd) don't do release an iso image in an attempt to drive up sales, many linux distros do. pretty much if your on a modem it doesn't matter either way:)
i'm guessing that you could install stuff with the srpms, but i think i'd be leary with things that are strongly architecture dependant(kernel, libc, gcc, binutils)
enlightenment-0.15.5-48.i386.rpm is what is in the dist, that is seriously dated.
I really don't know why they would ship that with redhat 6.2, after all thats the same package as shipped with 6.1. I wonder if this is for reasons like gnome integration or configuration or if it is something political.
while you may not be the official source i definitely value what i say... so do you think i should change the "Oog" in my posts to "OOG", or is it pretty much case-insensitive since he types in all caps?
a little newer kernel, a little newer X, newer apps all around. bigger stronger faster, but only a little at a time.:) all in all mostly just an upgrade, if you keep your machine reasonable current then probably not of much interest to you. after all, its only a point release(6.1 -> 6.2)
X4 isn't ready for the big time just yet. anyway Redhat 7.0 will probably have kernel 2.4 and X4 and I think it makes sence to upgrade those two major packages in a full version change instead of a point release which is usually reserved for incremental improvement.
the immature sexual trolling is really annoying at times, sometimes the only way around it is to set your threshold at 1 or heigher. the only problem is then you sometimes miss good but overlooked posts.
redhat 6.2 should be the best redhat release to date. poking around in the ftp tree and and i still can't say whether they're installing XFree86-4.0, but i'm certainly not expecting it. I suppose you can just pull rpms of it out of rawhide if you want it. All in all i'm ready to be really impressed by redhat when i get around to installing it next week, won't be able to this weekend because of a funeral:(
who else is currently mirroring?
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I know how there is a list of mirrors on RH's page, but is there a way of knowing in what order the mirror sites will get the dist? I'm guessing metalab isn't up to the task of handling all the downloads when all the geeks wake up tomorrow
just a few minutes later and there is a ton more stuff in the RPMS directory. i'm really hoping the iso shows up tonight as well. do you have any inside news on that?
Re:this doesn't look very complete
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oh, sorry for misreading that. damn, you're really on top of news today:)
i'm guessing that's insmonia at work(just like this post);)
this doesn't look very complete
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important things like bash, initscripts, and a full X install aren't there. maybe we shouldn't start hammering the ftp servers until there is actually a dist to download.
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the people who are going to benefit from e16 are people who aren't running gnome. the way redhat ships pretty much relies on gnome or kde running, and someone who is concerned enough to customize what wm they are running and decides against running both gnome and kde is probably capable of getting an e16 rpm. one nice thing about this is that the e15 rpm can have good gnome/kde friendly settings and the e16 rpm can be setup for more of an enlightenment only install.
try to be more open minded about decisions that are made by linux distros, they really are less political than they seem at first glance
iso is a the format of the data on a cdrom. putting an iso online like this allows people to download the ~600MB file and burn their own copy. :)
while some people (openbsd) don't do release an iso image in an attempt to drive up sales, many linux distros do. pretty much if your on a modem it doesn't matter either way
i'm guessing that you could install stuff with the srpms, but i think i'd be leary with things that are strongly architecture dependant(kernel, libc, gcc, binutils)
:)
btw, the WWOD really cracks me up
the kernel is 2.2.14, i have no way of checking to see what it's usb support is like though. :(
if anyone know's i'd love to find out if it is capable of installing onto an ultra ata66 drive.
how many people is this we?
dude, its just rot13, the premier encryption algorithym ;) try the command rot13 on your computer, it probably resides in /usr/games
for some really freaky stuff, try rot13 something twice!
enlightenment-0.15.5-48.i386.rpm is what is in the dist, that is seriously dated.
I really don't know why they would ship that with redhat 6.2, after all thats the same package as shipped with 6.1. I wonder if this is for reasons like gnome integration or configuration or if it is something political.
while you may not be the official source i definitely value what i say... so do you think i should change the "Oog" in my posts to "OOG", or is it pretty much case-insensitive since he types in all caps?
a little newer kernel, a little newer X, newer apps all around. bigger stronger faster, but only a little at a time. :) all in all mostly just an upgrade, if you keep your machine reasonable current then probably not of much interest to you. after all, its only a point release(6.1 -> 6.2)
this was one of the good overlooked posts i was talking about, pity it will probably be moderated down :(
what's the chances of these rpms drifting on over to rpmfind.net's contrib?
the iso is now partially there, you'll be able to download it in a matter of minutes, it's pretty cool to watch a dist mirror get updated :)
X4 isn't ready for the big time just yet.
anyway Redhat 7.0 will probably have kernel 2.4 and X4 and I think it makes sence to upgrade those two major packages in a full version change instead of a point release which is usually reserved for incremental improvement.
the immature sexual trolling is really annoying at times, sometimes the only way around it is to set your threshold at 1 or heigher. the only problem is then you sometimes miss good but overlooked posts.
redhat 6.2 should be the best redhat release to date. poking around in the ftp tree and and i still can't say whether they're installing XFree86-4.0, but i'm certainly not expecting it. :(
I suppose you can just pull rpms of it out of rawhide if you want it. All in all i'm ready to be really impressed by redhat when i get around to installing it next week, won't be able to this weekend because of a funeral
I know how there is a list of mirrors on RH's page, but is there a way of knowing in what order the mirror sites will get the dist? I'm guessing metalab isn't up to the task of handling all the downloads when all the geeks wake up tomorrow
maybe today is a good day to release :)
seriously though, it's pretty cool to see two great operating systems released for free on the same day.
i should get another drive and try out beos, it's pretty scary when a 27GB and a 6GB aren't enough.(yes, i'm an mp3 whore)
the whole dist isn't even uploaded yet. if the iso isn't there in a few hours then you can start flaming redhat. :)
just a few minutes later and there is a ton more stuff in the RPMS directory. i'm really hoping the iso shows up tonight as well. do you have any inside news on that?
oh, sorry for misreading that. damn, you're really on top of news today :)
;)
i'm guessing that's insmonia at work(just like this post)
important things like bash, initscripts, and a full X install aren't there. maybe we shouldn't start hammering the ftp servers until there is actually a dist to download.
umm, where is the announcement for this?
this is insulting to the intelligence of slashdot readers, please remove it from the front page and don't let it happen again.
i'm not oog, just a big fan
hot grit protection, finally