Downloading now. Thanks for the FYI. --- Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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@xxxxxxxxxx > > 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/ > === message truncated === __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? 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