Re: Announcing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon) Beta 2 PublicAvailability

[csieh <csieh fnal gov>]

So could you please open up the taroon directory on ftp.redhat.com .

Thanks

-Connie Sieh
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
On Tue, 26 
Aug 2003, Donald Fischer wrote:

> Red Hat is pleased to announce the general availability of Red Hat 
> Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon) Beta 2.  
> 
> Beta 2 contains a large number of installer and package bug fixes
> and updates since Beta 1.  If you have an existing Taroon Beta 1 
> installation, Red Hat strongly recommends that you simply bring 
> your system up to date on a regular basis using Red Hat Network 
> as described below.  A full re-installation with Beta 2 ISOs is 
> required only for testing of installer-related bug fixes.
> 
> This is a public beta.  Please feel free to forward this announcement 
> to anyone within or outside your organization who may be interested 
> in testing this beta release.
> 
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 is the next generation of our comprehensive
> suite of Linux operating systems -- designed for mission-critical
> enterprise computing and certified by top enterprise software vendors.  
> More information on the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 product 
> line is available at http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/.
> 
> This announcement includes details on obtaining the beta software, 
> reporting bugs, and communicating with Red Hat and other testers
> via mailing lists during the beta period.  
> 
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Beta 2 is available for the following 
> architectures:
>  - x86 (i686/Athlon 32-bit)
>  - ia64 (Intel Itanium2 64-bit)
>  - x86_64 (AMD64 64-bit)
>  - ppc (IBM iSeries and pSeries 64-bit)
>  - s390 (IBM S/390 31-bit)
>  - s390x (IBM zSeries 64-bit)
> 
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Beta 2 is available in two variants:
> 
>  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
>    * Designed for server applications, includes the core operating
>      system as well as network server packages
>    * Available for x86, ia64, x86_64, ppc, s390, s390x
>  
>  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS
>    * Designed for workstation applications, includes the core
>      operating system as well as desktop productivity, development,
>      communications, and network client packages
>    * Available for x86, ia64, x86_64
> 
> A third variant, Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES, designed for
> mid-range server applications, has an identical package set to 
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS at Beta 2.  General users interested in
> the ES product should test the AS Beta 2 release.
> 
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Beta 2 contains a wide range of new 
> features, including but not limited to the following:
> 
>  - Kernel based on 2.4.21 with numerous scalability enhancements:
>    * Native Posix Threading Library (NPTL)
>    * Thread Local Storage & Futex APIs
>    * Per-device locks for block IO
>    * Memory management enhancements: RMAP VM & large pages support
>    * O(1) scheduler
>    * Hyperthreading scheduler
>    * Integrated Summit chipset support
>    * NFS performance & stability enhancements
>    * Large Translation Buffer pages - hugetlbfs
>    * Ext3 updates for performance and stability
>    * Semtimedop â?? semaphores with time limitation
>    * Fine-grain process accounting (x86 only)
>    * ACPI 2.0 (Itanium2 & AMD64 only)
>    * Many driver updates and additions
> 
>  - 4GB/4GB Kernel/User Memory Split (x86 hugemem kernel only)
>    * Support for up to 64GB on x86
>    * 4GB of virtual address space for kernel and almost 4GB for each 
>      user process on x86
> 
>  - Development Environment
>    * gcc 3.2.3 tool chain
>    * gcc "ssa" tool chain included as a technology preview
>    * gcj / libgcj  (Java gcc compiler front-end)
>    * gdb 5.3.90 - including multi-threaded core dump and gcore
>    * glibc 2.3.2
>    * Eclipse 2.1 Developer Environment
> 
>  - Improved I/O subsystem
>    * 64-bit SCSI/Fibre Channel DMA support
>    * Up to 256 SCSI devices
>    * VaryIO support (permits larger I/O transfers)
>    * Serial ATA support - SATA1 (for Intel PIIX/ICH ATA ICH5)
>    * Hotplug PCI framework (x86 and ia64 only)
>    * Asynchronous I/O on sockets
>    * Expanded Asynchronous I/O for disks support
> 
>  - Desktop enhancements
>    * XFree86 4.3.0
>    * Bluecurve (tm) graphical user interface (Unified GNOME/KDE look 
>      and feel)
>    * OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 office productivity suite
>    * Ximian Evolution 1.4.4
>    * Mozilla 1.4
> 
>  - Improved serviceability
>    * Logical Volume Manager (LVM1) support
>    * Kernel crash dump and analysis enhancements
>    * Configurable application core dump paths
>    * Code profiling support included in the kernel (OProfile)
>    * Support for diskless systems
> 
>  - Networking Enhancements
>    * Improvements to channel bonding
>    * Failover & bandwidth aggregation for servers w/ multiple NICs
>    * More complete kernel IPv6 support
>    * Kernel IGMP V2 and V3 support
>    * Samba 3.0 (Beta)
>    * Apache 2.0 web server
>    * Red Hat Content Accelerator update
> 
>  - Security enhancements
>    * Filesystem ACLs 
>    * General purpose cryptographic API in the Kernel
>    * Position Independent Executables
>    * Kernel support for ipsec on IPv4
> 
>  - Red Hat Cluster Manager enhancements
>    * Multinode high availability clustering with new GUI
> 
> Current features, packages, and naming are subject to change before 
> the final release.
> 
> The Red Hat Enterprise Linux development team would like to encourage 
> you to test this release in non-production environments and provide 
> feedback via the mechanisms described below.  This is pre-release
> quality code, and Red Hat makes no guarantees as to performance,
> stability, or compatibility across beta releases.  Please run
> this in non-production environments only.   Red Hat will not support
> upgrades from beta to official released products.
> 
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Beta 2 is available for download via FTP 
> and Red Hat Network.  For existing Beta 1 testers, Red Hat recommends 
> the use of Red Hat Network to update to Beta 2, rather than 
> re-installing from new ISO images.  Updated ISO images are only 
> required for verifying fixes to installer related bugs.
> 
> Red Hat Network Availability and Updates
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> RPM and source RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Beta 2 are
> available via Red Hat Network to all RHN users at:
>   
>   https://rhn.redhat.com
> 
> Installable binary and source ISO images are available via Red Hat 
> Network to all RHN users with paid subscriptions at:
> 
>   https://rhn.redhat.com/network/software/download_isos.pxt
> 
> Note that the location of ISO downloads in the RHN web interface
> has changed slightly with this release -- ISOs are now grouped
> with channels rather than listed all in one page.  Read the 
> instructions at the above URL carefully.
> 
> During the beta period, we will also be supplying updated packages
> via Red Hat Network.  While these updates are not subjected to as 
> much system testing as our release milestones, they enable you to 
> immediately test against more recent package builds that may resolve 
> bugs and issues.  
> 
> We strongly encourage you to register your system to Red Hat 
> Network and regularly run the Red Hat Update Agent (up2date) 
> to ensure that you are testing the latest beta packages.  
> 
> Note that you only need to register your system to the default 
> RHN channel; there is no longer any need to register to a 
> specific "Updates" child channel via the RHN web interface.
> 
> After installing and registering your system, run the Red Hat 
> Update Agent (up2date) on your target system(s) to retrieve and 
> install the most recent package updates.  Help on using the 
> up2date tool is available at:
> 
>   http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/RHNetwork/ref-guide/up2date-setup.html
> 
> FTP Availability
> ----------------
> 
> Installable binary ISO images, RPM packages, and source RPMs are
> also available at:
> 
>   ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/taroon
> 
> Bug Reporting
> -------------
> 
> To ensure accurate tracking and follow-up, all bugs should be reported
> using Bugzilla at:
> 
>   http://bugzilla.redhat.com
> 
> We have created a public release category 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> Public Beta' for this early access program.  Please use version
> "taroon-beta2" as the version for all bugs filed against this milestone
> release.
> 
> Mailing Lists
> -------------
> 
> Red Hat has created a public mailing list for general discussion 
> of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon) Beta releases.
> 
> To subscribe to taroon-beta-list, send mail to:
> 
>   taroon-beta-list-request at redhat com
> 
> with
>   
>   subscribe
> 
> in the subject line. You can leave the body empty. Or see:
> 
>   https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-beta-list/
> 
> Thanks for your interest in testing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3!
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team
> 
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