"R. Sean Hartnett" wrote:
>
> Anyone try out the latest release?
> Curious as to what first impression it made?
>
I've done 2 upgrades (actually and install and an upgrade, it turns out)
in the past couple of days.
Got a set of disks from RedHat on Wednesday. Had a VALinux
dual-processor workstation at home with RH6.2 that I wanted to upgrade
(had held off because I had a copy of VMware 2.x running smoothly on it
and didn't want to mess things up). Told the installer to upgrade, but
it blew up most of the way through ("anaconda error" - not very
helpful); I'd already pared things down because my /usr partition was
too small, so suspected that was actually the problem. Since /home,
/home/vmware and misc other useful stuff was on it's own partitions,
just decided to do a straight install with a MUCH larger partition
assigned to /usr. Install went fine this time (and the partitions
upgraded from ext2 to ext3 during the abortive upgrade were recognized
as already being ext3). All seems to work just fine with smp kernel;
KDE looks good. Haven't touched vmware yet - want to upgrade it to v3.1
anyway.
Comment: with RH7.3, RH has gone just a little more "corporate" :-) On
startup, using framebuffer console, instead of 1 or 2 little penguins
like you get on UP or SMP machines under RH7.2, you get a "Redhat ...."
logo band across the top of screen. And the KDE startup screen has been
replaced with one from RH as well. hhhmmmmmmm......
2nd upgrade here at work performed on a Dell 530 dual-Xeon workstation;
this upgrade went just fine, from RH7.1 that was originally shipped.
And here, I had VMware v3.1 already running. After install, had to run
the vmware installer, and it, in turn, had to recompile a couple of its
modules. All went OK and runs fine.
(BTW, the Dell 530 originally (Sep 2001 purchase with Linux
pre-installed) had an Nvidia GeForce card; got random "hard" hangs (hard
reset required) on starting X occasionally. Dell was unfortunately
unable to support Linux and Redhat & Linuxcare couldn't really support
Dell either - everyone was real nice and did try, but.... After a few
weeks of @#%&ing around, got a nice Matrox G400 card and haven't had a
hiccup since.)
Anyway, overall positive results with RH7.3....
geoff
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