jlc Posted July 21, 2003 Report Share Posted July 21, 2003 In case anyone cares the lastest RH beta will be coming out today or sometime this week. Here's is the release notes. http://distrowatch.com/external/RedHat-Sev...ease-Notes.html Here are some other notes from Distrowatch http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20030721 Red Hat Linux 9.0.93 (Severn) Yes, it's the start of another beta testing period for Red Hat users once Red Hat Linux 9.0.93, code name "Severn" is released later today (no, we are not going to speculate on what the final release is going to be called). Don't expect too much new, however, as the beta release appears to be more of a consolidation release of Red Hat Linux 9, rather than a release full of cutting edge features. Severn has been spotted on many Red Hat mirrors, but the directory is still locked. If you can't wait until the official announcement, read the Severn release notes. The release will likely be accompanied by further announcements. Many of you have seen the usual attention-grabbing headline from Linux and Main: "Red Hat to abandon retail channel" which was later "updated" to "Red Hat to change development model, abandon shrinkwrap". The full story is here. We'll wait for the full announcement before making any comments, but things rarely look as bad as journalist make them look and you will certainly be able to buy the Red Hat Linux distribution in the future. In fact, the experimental launch of the Red Hat Linux magazine in Germany and Italy seems like a great success and similar models might be on the cards for other parts of the world. There will be more on the subject in the next weekly edition of Linux Weekly News, including an interview with Red Hat's Matt Wilson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted July 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2003 Just recieved this e-mail from my RH list! And there off..... Thank you gentlemen. This is rumor control. Here are the facts. As some of you know, new Red Hat Linux Beta bits crash landed here at 1000 on the morning watch. There was one survivor. Two dead processes, and a daemon that was hopelessly smashed beyond repair. The survivor is called SEVERN. It's that time again. (Time to floss?) (Time to make a gooky?) No, it's time for a Red Hat Linux Beta, named SEVERN. "I just want to say that I took a vow of stability. That also includes betas. We all took the vow. Now let me say, that I for one, do not appreciate Company policy allowing beta bits to freely intermingle..." "Cheeky bastard, right sir?" "What brother means to say is ... We view the presence of any outside OS, beta, as a violation of the stability, a potential break in the spiritual unity." We are well aware of your feelings in this matter. You will be pleased to know that I have requested a testing team - Hopefully, they will be here inside of a few hours and evaluate it A.S.A.P. As always, betas such as SEVERN are not intended for use on production environments. Use as such could lead to your machines being slaughtered like pigs by the dragon. Or just public laughter. Problems with SEVERN should be reported via bugzilla, at: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/ What's its development status? "It doesn't seem too horrendously in flux. Difficult at this moment to make a specific diagnosis." Among other things, SEVERN has: - a new graphical boot - GCC 3.3 - an updated 2.4.21 kernel - updated Evolution and Mozilla - and more! Will it live? "Yes, I should think so." Look, none of us here is naive. It's in everybody's best interests if this beta doesn't come out into production until the testing team is through with it. And certainly not without the proper qualification and bug reports. Right? So we should all stick to our set routines and not get unduly agitated. Correct? All right. Thank you gentlemen. Speaking of unduly agitated... there's lots of rumors going on about Red Hat Linux. We've been doing it for nearly ten years now, and in that time, there's been various changes. From rpp to RPM, from Red Hat Commercial Linux to Official Red Hat Linux, from 'install' to anaconda. And now, we're making another change. We changed the rules. We said our Linux should be your Linux. Just as most of the software in Red Hat Linux is developed in an open fashion, so should Red Hat Linux itself; driven by those who develop, test, document, and translate. To accomplish this, we're opening up our process. Now this is an evolution, not a revolution. The first steps will be moving much of our development discussions and schedules external, via mailing lists and other means, and including external developers in the process of making technical decisions. More will be done from there. Red Hat Linux will remain as it has been; a freely available general purpose operating system, released on the average every six months. For more information, see: http://rhl.redhat.com/ For discussion of SEVERN, send mail to: rhl-beta-list-request@redhat.com with subscribe in the subject line. You can leave the body empty. Or see: https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhl-beta-list/ As always, you can get SEVERN at redhat.com, specifically: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/beta/severn/ Or the following mirrors: North America: United States: ftp://moni.msci.memphis.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ http://moni.msci.memphis.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://linux.stanford.edu/pub/mirrors/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/RedHat/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://mirror.eas.muohio.edu/mirrors/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/redhat/beta/severn/ ftp://redhat.dulug.duke.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ http://mirror.hiwaay.net/redhat/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ rsync://rsync.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ Canada: ftp://less.cogeco.net/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://ftp.nrc.ca/pub/systems/linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/linux/beta/severn/ South America: Brazil: http://bastion.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn ftp://bastion.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn Chile: ftp://ftp.tecnoera.com/Linux/redhat-beta/severn/ Europe: Austria: ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/redhat.com/dist/linux/beta/severn/ http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/redhat.com/dist/linux/beta/severn/ rsync://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/redhat.com/dist/linux/beta/severn/ Czech Republic: ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/MIRRORS/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://ultra.linux.cz/MIRRORS/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://ftp6.linux.cz/pub/linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ Denmark: ftp://klid.dk/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ Germany: ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/redhat-ftp/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/redhat-ftp/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/pub/linux/Mirror/ftp.redhat.com/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ Ireland: ftp://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ http://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ rsync://ftp.esat.net/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ Netherlands: ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/RedHat/ftp/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/RedHat/ftp/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://alviss.et.tudelft.nl/pub/redhat/beta/severn/ Poland: ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ rsync://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/ftp/pub/Linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/Linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ Romania: ftp://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ rsync://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ Turkey: ftp://ftp.linux.org.tr/pub/redhat/beta/severn/ United Kingdom: http://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/redhat/beta/severn/ ftp://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/pub/distributions/redhat/beta/severn/ rsync://zeniiia.linux.org.uk/ftp/pub/distributions/redhat/beta/severn/ Asia/Pacific: Australia: http://planetmirror.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/redhat/linux/severn/ ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/redhat/linux/severn/ Japan: ftp://ftp.sfc.wide.ad.jp/pub/Linux/RedHat/linux/beta/severn/ Singapore: ftp://ftp.oss.eznetsols.org/linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ rsync://rsync.oss.eznetsols.org/linux/redhat/linux/beta/severn/ One additional feature provided by the Linux community is the availability of SEVERN via BitTorrent. http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/severn-binary-iso.torrent http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/severn-source-iso.torrent RPMS for Red Hat Linux 7.3 through 9 of BitTorrent are available from: http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/btrpms/ Usage is simple: btdownloadcurses.py --url http://URL.torrent Allow incoming TCP 6881 - 6889 to join the torrent swarm. http://torrent.dulug.duke.edu/ -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list Currently I'm downloading at 3.5Mbps so I can't tell you what mirror I'm on. :wink: The e-mail is a little odd! 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shen Posted July 21, 2003 Report Share Posted July 21, 2003 bah about all I am getting and I am to lazy to try em all is 2.4 Mbps...:P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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