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What's new
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by pyrotic on Monday July 31, @05:54AM PST
(User #169450 Info) http://195.7.241.7/hyperspace.
Here's what's new about RH 7.0:
perl 5.60
php 4.01 - speed boost over version 3
mysql - now open source, no longer just in power tools
XFree86 4.01 - speed boost over version 3
enterprise kernel - raw filesystems and other performance patches
kde 1.91 - beta for 2.0, includes new browser
kde office 1.91
And what's missing:
sendmail 8.11 - crypto smtp
kernel 2.4test5ac - decent smp performance
tux 1.0 - very fast RedHat kernel web server
apache 2.0pre4
bind 9.0 - major rewrite
staroffice - now it's open source
LVM
reiserfs
Sendmail and staroffice aren't beta and should have gone into this
release, the rest are probably too bleeding edge. Anyone think of
anything I've missed?
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Re:What's new
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by bero-rh (bero@redhat.com) on Monday July 31, @07:16AM PST
(User #98815 Info) http://people.redhat.com/bero
What's missing:
sendmail 8.11
Missing from the beta, present in our current tree (and definitely the
final).
kernel 2.4test5ac
Actually it's there, on the 2nd CD and not installed by default
because it's known to have some critical bugs.
tux 1.0
Needs kernel 2.4
apache 2.0pre4
Chances are 2.0 won't be released in time for 7.0. It'll probably be
in 7.1 (and I'll make RPMs for 7.0 available as soon as I have the
time).
bind 9.0
Same as for apache - I'm actually using the 9.0.0 release candidate to
host bero.org, but it has a couple of problems, like some missing
utilities, and requires all master zones to be changed because the TTL
stuff is now mandatory (and most people haven't used it with bind 8),
so there's no really clean update path. Not something we could do in
the couple of days between the 9.0.0rc1 release and the beta.
staroffice
It's still binary-only, they've just announced they'll GPL it by
October 13th. We'll include it once that happened, until then, it will
be on the Linux Applications CD in the boxed sets.
LVM
It's present in the 2.4 kernel we're shipping.
reiserfs
Too unstable at the moment. They keep changing the journal format, and
the recovery tools aren't quite where they should be.
Yes, reiserfs is nice while it works (I'm actually using it on one of
my machines), but if something doesn't work and a journal replay
doesn't fix it, you're usually in trouble.
I'll make a kernel RPM with the patch available over at
people.redhat.com/bero/experimental when I have the time (probably
shortly after the 7.0 release) for those who want to play - but for
now, we don't feel we can support it.
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