new Red Hat Linux ia64 beta release available
For those people not on the general Red Hat announce lists, a new beta release of Red Hat Linux for ia64 is available. From the general announcement:
Announcing...
Red Hat Linux "Fisher"
(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 Fisher, as it may eat it and make loud belching noises.
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You can enter bug reports for any problems you might find by using bugzilla at:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/
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* Where can I get this release?
Fisher can be downloaded from our public FTP site at:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/beta/fisher
With the support of volunteers ftp site administrators, Fisher is available from several mirrors. The following sites have complete copies of Fisher, so please use a mirror close to you:
Indiana, USA:
http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/beta/fisher
ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/beta/fisher
Minnesota, USA:
ftp://ftp.mn-linux.org/linux/redhat/beta/fisher
Buffalo, New York, USA:
ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/mirror/Linux/redhat/beta/fisher
Pennsylvania, USA:
http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/beta/fisher
ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/beta/fisher rsync://carroll.cac.psu.edu/redhat-beta/fisher
Australia:
ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/redhat/beta/fisher
http://www.planetmirror.com/pub/redhat/beta/fisher
Please also see our official mirror list:
http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html
as more of the mirror sites may have picked up the beta by the time you read this.
* What's new in this beta?
General system improvements:
o Itanium(tm) architecture support is included
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* Major known issues:
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o X and KDE have known failures on Itanium.
As always, there is a mailing list to discuss the IA-64 release. To subscribe, send mail to [email protected] with
subscribe
in the subject line. You can leave the body empty.
You can also subscribe to the general Fisher discussion list; to do so, send mail to [email protected] in a similar manner (subject of 'subscribe', empty body).
Bill