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

["Andrea Citti" <acitti informatiklab tiscali it>]

I have a question about RedHat Enterprise Linux 3: this new release can work with Oracle Application Server release 2 (9iAS)?
This release will be certified by Oracle?
I have tried with no success to install 9ias rel. 2 after a previous successfully install of Oracle 9.2 database in a RedHat 9 release (problem to recompile webcache), the glibc of Taroon is fondamentaly the same of RedHat 9 or these libraries are more compatible with Oracle?

Andrea Citti


-----Original Message-----
From: taroon-beta-list-admin redhat com [mailto:taroon-beta-list-admin redhat com] On Behalf Of Donald Fischer
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:20 PM
To: taroon-beta-list redhat com
Subject: Announcing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon) Beta 2 PublicAvailability


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 – 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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