I know it was just released today but I am sure there is someone out there who is gung-ho enough to already have it up and running. I was wondering how it was going and if it was worth moving up from RH 7.1 to 7.2?

If anyone else has opinions on this, please share them.

Thanks!
Andy

AFAIK redhat is not put the iso's up on ftp yet, guess they're just trying to get a bit of cash out of people who desperately need it the latest old kernel....

They have been posted on some mirrors. I can get them from my college's CS ftp servers (ftp.cse.buffalo.edu).

I haven't gotten around to doing anything with them yet b/c I am still at work...

I have not tried RH's ftp servers because normally I can never get in.....

I haven't installed it yet, but from looking around:

The main enhancements (as visible by the user):

Grub instead of lilo (You can still use lilo if you want to ..). Grub is a great boot loader, similar to the "boot monitor" of real Unix hardware. Grub understands the file system, so you do not need to reinstall Grub every time you update your kernel (like you have to with lilo). Once you are in the grub boot promt, you can boot any OS on your system.

Mozilla and Nautilus:

Mozilla 0.9.2.1 is a rather old release, but it was the release chosen by Netscape for NS6.1 so it is quite good. Nautilus is 1.0.4 + a lot of patches from RH (Alan Cox ?) to speed things up. Natilus is still somewhat slow, but I don't use file managers so much, so I don't care. Seeing the speed and stability improvements of Mozilla in the last 6 months, I am quite confident that Nutilus will be a great file manager in a short time frame. It is a very good "eye candy", and impresses every Windows user seeing it.

Kernel, gcc, ptyhon, etc

The kernel is 2.4.7 + a lot of patches. Since RedHat 7.1 is at kernel 2.4.9-6 already, I believe that we will see an updated kernel soon. The main compiler is RedHats own 2.96 + modifications, and python is at 1.5.2-35. You will find gcc 3.01 and python 2.1.1 on the CD which can be installed separately. RedHat 8.0 will probably use these as default.

Postfix, Apache:

Redhat has dropped support for Postfix (a sendmail replacement), which used to be on the Powertools CD. Apache is the rock solid 1.3.20.

Executive Summary:

RH7.2 is a polished good distribution. Since it is a .2 version, RedHat is going to support it for a looong time, and it will become the first choice for many system administrators for serious linux servers (that is, until 8.2 is released).

Downloaded both iso files for 7.2. Disk 1 burnt okay but Disk 2 gives errors and hangs install. Trying again with new download. Anyone else had this problem?

daysupiii

Ive tried downloading it, but it tells me that its going to take 6 days and i friggen believe it, it dl 100megs in like 20hours. On cable, thats terrible. I want to give it a shot, but getting it from theyre ftp is to slow. Anyone know any place faster?