On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Orion Poplawski <or...@cora.nwra.com> wrote:
> FYI - The RHEL 7 Beta is public: > > http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rhel/beta/7/x86_64/os/ > > so you can try it out now if you want. I'd consider making a mirror of it, or of the ISO contents, to be able to access the packages quickly. I'm afraid that RHN registered access is no faster than it's ever been: the worldwide CentOS or Scientific Linux mirrors continue to outperform the centralized, RHN repository in speed of reporting the dependencies of a a package, and in actually serving the package, unless you've invested the significant capital in getting an RHN Satellite set up. Scientific Linux mirrors are much cheaper and notably more stable than anything I've encountered with RHN: it's one of the reasons I like the free rebuilds like SL and CentOS. I'm afraid there's a great deal I *don't* like about the beta: Moving the contents of "/bin" to "/usr/bin", and setting the PATH to "/usr/bin:/bin" is going to break a *lot* of old tools in confusing ways. They should leave "/bin" entirely out of the default PATH to avoid confusion with the n ew layout. And the new installer is "a new spoke and wheel paradigm" that looks pretty in a PowerPoint presentation, and actually hinders sensible workflow. How many places can we hide the "Next" or "Done" button, I count at least 4 in those various screens, and they're all far too large graphically for a small remote VNC or VMware console over a limited network pipe. Do not get me *started* on NetworkManager and libvirt. Overall, I'm pretty unhappy with the release 7 beta. Upon review, the only reason I want it, and will want SL 7 with it, is the significantly updated Perl, PHP, and other libraries. I'd say that Samba 4 is a big step forward but I've already tools for an up to date backport of samba-4.x at https://github.com/nkadel/samba4repo. And I'm afraid that it's taking way too long. By the time it comes out, I'll *already* have to bundle together a bunch pf backports from more recent Fedora releases to get various Perl and Python and Java based tools working.