Red Hat 8.0 Beta

Post #33,888 by a6l6e6x 3/30/02 10:37:26 PM Reply	Red Hat 8.0 Beta [link\|ftp://redhat.nitco.com/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/linux/beta/\|Skipjack] is the Intel-platform beta release of Red Hat 8.0, or so I was told. It's 3 CDs worth. If you have the inclination and the bandwidth, go for it. I saw it installed at an installfest NC State University in Raleigh. One student, with a brand new Toshiba laptop, had Win-XP blown away to get it. No one there had a fdisk that would work for NTFS partitions. The beta will obviously have some annoying bugs, but it does include the beta of KDE 3.0 which looked nice. The Red Hat guys at the installfest were making notes of the install bugs that were seen. Alex "Never express yourself more clearly than you think." -- Neils Bohr (1885-1962)
Post #33,894 by folkert 3/30/02 11:35:37 PM Reply	Ooops... You mean 7.3.... That actual release is v7.2.92. As seen [link\|ftp://redhat.nitco.com/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/linux/beta/skipjack/en/os/i386/RELEASE-NOTES\|Here] Leads me to believe, it'll be a 7.3 in there... Not really much difference, just some fix-ups where it needs to be, Things added: Debian Alternatives, Kernel Headers are now a GLIBC piece(glibc-kernhead...) not a Kernel piece(kernelX-headers), gPhoto2 added, xscanimage is deprecated(use xsane), oh yeah, KDE 3.0.0. Also, you can install/upgrade using the ISOs in a sinlge directory now. No longer have to extract the files to a seperate directory stucture. BTW, if it were 8.0 Beta... would have been 7.9.92 or something the like... GRINS L8R `greg, curley95@attbi.com -- REMEMBER ED CURRY!!! Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead. [link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]`
Post #33,895 by a6l6e6x 3/30/02 11:43:05 PM Reply	Re: Ooops... You mean 7.3.... You could be very right. The fellow that said "8.0" was not form Red Hat. Alex "Never express yourself more clearly than you think." -- Neils Bohr (1885-1962)
Post #33,910 by lordbeatnik 3/31/02 11:21:51 AM Reply	It's 7.3 The rumor I heard was that they were having trouble converting to compiling with their version of gcc 3.1 so they've decided to do another 7.x release while they let 8.0 slip. David "LordBeatnik"
Post #33,920 by folkert 3/31/02 12:45:19 PM Reply	Well... at least rumors are... Rumors, I heard the same thing. But it was another dead branch of gcc v3.0something. But we get the picture. Alot of other things didn't show up that I'd expected either... Like newer LOTSA things... as I am forced to update somethings for some products we run. Oh, well, another revision, some more job security!!! ;) `greg, curley95@attbi.com -- REMEMBER ED CURRY!!! Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead. [link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|[link\|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html\|http://www.eff.org/...a_alert.html]]`
Post #33,960 by broomberg 3/31/02 11:14:03 PM Reply	On the last 6 RPMs What should I expect to miss? Other than the fact it didn't pick up my mouse and made me go through text install? I suspect I fried my MB on a hot mouse plug. It's OK, I have a stack more to try later.

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