FYI: ----- Forwarded message from redhat-announce-list-admin@redhat.com ----- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 18:17:07 -0500 From: redhat-announce-list-admin@redhat.com To: redhat-watch-list@redhat.com Subject: Announcing a beta release of Red Hat Linux: "Wolverine" Reply-To: redhat-announce-list@redhat.com Announcing... Red Hat Linux "Wolverine" (a beta release) Red Hat, Inc. presents a beta release of Red Hat Linux for your hacking pleasure. First, the regular drill: This is a beta release of Red Hat Linux. It is not intended for mission critical applications. It's not even intended for non-mission critical applications. Important data should not be entrusted to Wolverine, as it may eat it and make loud belching noises. Significant changes have been made since the last version of Red Hat Linux, including a shift to a 2.4-based kernel. We need your help to find and report bugs. You can enter bug reports for any problems you might find by using bugzilla at: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/ PLEASE SEARCH FOR EXISTING BUG REPORTS BEFORE YOU ENTER A NEW REPORT! Patches are always appreciated, so include them if you can. As in Red Hat Linux 7, this beta is large enough that the binary packages have been split between two ISO images. The installation program handles reading packages from multiple CDs. * Where can I get this release? Wolverine can be downloaded from our public FTP site at: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/beta/wolverine With the support of volunteers ftp site administrators, Wolverine is available from several mirrors. The following sites have complete copies of Wolverine, so please use a mirror close to you: Indiana, USA: http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/beta/wolverine ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/beta/wolverine Minnesota, USA: ftp://ftp.mn-linux.org/linux/redhat/beta/wolverine North Carolina, USA: ftp://kickstart.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/redhat/beta/wolverine Buffalo, New York, USA: ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/mirror/Linux/redhat/beta/wolverine Pennsylvania, USA: http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/beta/wolverine ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/beta/wolverine rsync://carroll.cac.psu.edu/redhat-beta/wolverine Australia: ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/redhat/beta/wolverine http://www.planetmirror.com/pub/redhat/beta/wolverine Czech Republic: ftp://sunsite.mff.cuNi.cz/pub/redhat/beta/wolverine Please also see our official mirror list: http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html as more of the mirror sites may have picked up the beta by the time you read this. * What's new since Red Hat Linux 7? General system improvements: o Installer has many improvements and fixes, including basic firewall configuration o Workstation installs are more network-secure (most services are disabled by default) o Japanese support fully integrated o Graphical kickstart configuration program included Core system components: o kernel 2.4.1 + many fixes o glibc 2.2.2 o XFree86 4.0.2 o XFree86 3.3.6 X servers included for maximum hardware compatibility o KDE 2.1 beta release snapshot o GNOME libs 1.2.8, core 1.2.4 o GCC 2.96-RH Expanded hardware support: o Improved USB o IDE UltraDMA 66/100 o IEEE1394 (FireWire(tm)) o ATM networking o WiFI wireless ethernet cards o ESS Maestro3 and newer Crystal audio System service changes: o New network-transparent configuration subsystem o Configuration tools for BIND, Apache, and printing A sampling of package upgrades: o GIMP 1.2.1 o Tcl/Tk 8.3.1 o BIND 9.1.0 o Pine 4.33 o Vim 6.0 prerelease o XMMS 1.2.4 A sampling of Package additions: o OGG/Vorbis audio encoder/decoder o Mozilla * Status of Red Hat Network: rhn_register, the registration client for Red Hat Network, is included, but registrations for the beta will not be accepted. However, up2date will be fully functional in anonymous mode, and we encourage people to make use of this functionality. We will be attempting to synchronize our fixes with Update Agent on a nightly basis, so if you report a problem and it gets fixed, you can get a new version of that particular package on the following day. * Major known issues: o Cardbus network cards will not work properly after the install procedure is completed. o Network cards which use the tulip driver may report incorrect hardware addresses. o Minimal installs do not support NFS out of the box. Install the portmap package afterwards if you require this functionality. o Some Java JDKs (both from Sun and IBM) don't work with the i686 version of glibc (Sun is working on a fix for JDK). Additionally, the i686 version of glibc only supports 2.4-based kernels. If you are experiencing problems such as the one described above, or need to run a 2.2-based kernel, install the i386 version of glibc by running: rpm -Uvh --force glibc-2.2.2-3.i386.rpm * Other known issues and information can be found in the release notes. * A mailing list is being set up to host discussion of issues specific to this beta. Web access to our mailing lists can be found at: https://listman.redhat.com/ If you don't have web access, you can still subscribe to the main mailing list. To subscribe, send mail to wolverine-list-request@redhat.com with subscribe in the subject line. You can leave the body empty. Enjoy! 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