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Subject: Announcing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon) Beta 2 Public
Availability
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 26 Aug 2003 16:32:56 -0400
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 b 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
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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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