Re: Anyone tried the Red Hat beta ("severn")

[<dsavage@peaknet.net>]

On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 17:57, Jason V Smith wrote:
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 12:33, Charlie Brune wrote:
> > Has anyone tried it out?  Wondering if there is new, cool stuff in it.
>
> I installed it a few days after it came out.  I didn't really mess with
> it much it's a lot like 9.  There's a few changes with the installer and
> there is a graphical bootup that's interesting.  All in all it seems to
> be a lot like 9 with some enhancements.
>

Severn installs noticeably faster than previous versions. Don't know if
it's anaconda that's been improved, or rpm. It only took 42 minutes for an
"everything" new install on a 1GHz laptop w/512M.

It's definitely beta. I can receive but not send mail with Evolution
1.4-3. When I try to change the Bluecurve browser icon back to the
original Mozilla, hitting the Browse button causes the utility to hang.

After playing with it for a couple of days I'm beginning to think Red Hat
should sit back and wait a couple more months. Imagine if "Red Hat X"
could claim to be the first production release of the 2.6 kernel for AMD's
Athlon-64.

--Doc



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