Announcing Red Hat Linux "Pinstripe" - a Beta release (fwd)

[Alex Kanavin <ak@cave.hop.stu.neva.ru>]

Можно сразу перейти к перечислению новшеств. Не поторопились ли они с
glibc 2.1.91?

-- 
Alexander

Homepage: http://www.sensi.org/~ak/
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 09:19:54 -0400
From: Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>
To: redhat-announce-list@redhat.com
Subject: Announcing Red Hat Linux "Pinstripe" - a Beta release

Announcing...

                     Red Hat Linux "Pinstripe"
                           a Beta release

Red Hat. Inc. presents a beta release of Red Hat Linux for your
hacking pleasure.  First, the regular drill:

   This is a beta release of Red Hat Linux.  It is not intended for
   mission critical applications.  It's not even intended for
   non-mission critical applications.  Important data should not be
   entrusted to Pinstripe, as it may eat it and make loud belching
   noises.

Significant changes have been made since the last version of Red Hat
Linux.  We need your help to find and report bugs.  Search for
existing bug reports for problems you find by using bugzilla at:

  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/

Attach patches if you're motivated!

This beta includes so much cutting edge software, the binary packages
come on two iso images.  The installation program now handles reading
packages from multiple CDs.

*  Where can I get this release?

Pinstripe can be downloaded from our public FTP site at:

   ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/beta/pinstripe

With the support of volunteers ftp site administrators, Pinstripe is
available from several mirrors.  The following have complete copies of
Pinstripe, please use a mirror close to you:

North Carolina, USA:
  ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
  http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

California, USA:
  ftp://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
  http://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

California, USA:
  ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Connecticut, USA:
  ftp://ftp.uselinux.org/pub/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Indiana, USA:
  ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
  http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Michigan, USA:
  ftp://mrhankey.bizserve.com/pub/linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

New York, USA:
  ftp://ftp.ee.cornell.edu/pub/linux/redhat/beta/pinstripe

Pennsylvania, USA:
  ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Pennsylvania, USA:
  ftp://cronus.res.cmu.edu/pub/linux/ftp.redhat.com/beta/pinstripe/

Tennessee, USA:
  ftp://sunsite.utk.edu/pub/linux/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
  http://sunsite.utk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Australia:
  ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
  http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Germany:
  ftp://ftp.gmd.de/mirrors/redhat.com/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Germany:
  ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/linux/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
  http://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/linux/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
  
Norway:
  (ISO images only)
  ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Peru:
  ftp://sajino.terra.com.pe/pub/linux/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Japan:
  ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/Linux/packages/RedHat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

*  What's new in this beta?

   General system improvements:
     o FHS compliant packaging of files
       /usr/man is now /usr/share/man
       /usr/doc is now /usr/share/doc
       /usr/info is now /usr/share/info
       See http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ for more information

     o Document roots for Apache and anonymous FTP are removed from
       /home so it may be automounted.

     o Packages with services are automatically restarted on live
       upgrades

     o Expanded LDAP integration

     o Expanded Kerberos integration

   Core system components:
     o glibc 2.1.91
     o XFree86 4.0.1, XFree86 4.0.1 runtime environment
     o XFree86 3.3.6 X servers included for maximum hardware compatibility
     o GNOME 1.2
     o kernel 2.2.16
     o GCC 2.96

   Expanded hardware support: 
     o Basic USB support (mouse and keyboards)
     o Expanded hardware accelerated 3-D support

   System service changes:
     o inetd replaced by xinetd
     o BSD lpr replaced by LPRng

   A sampling of package upgrades:
     o GIMP 1.1.24
     o Perl 5.6.0
     o Tcl/Tk 8.3.1

   A sampling of Package additions:
     o SDL, smpeg
     o SANE
     o gphoto
     o MySQL
     o AbiWord
     o dia
     o ispell has been replaced by aspell
     o XEmacs

   Next generation development library previews included:
     o pango: Unicode font rendering
       See http://www.pango.org/
     o Inti: C++ foundation libraries including GTK+ GUI toolkit classes
       See http://sources.redhat.com/inti/

Enjoy!

The OS Development Team
Red Hat, Inc.

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