Monday, March 27, 2000

Red Hat 6.2 Is Out! -- 11:38 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

I received an email this morning that Red Hat 6.2 has officially been relesed. Snag it at your favorite mirror site or on Red Hat's public FTP. Here's a list of the main changes:

• The system can now be installed onto a loopback file on a FAT filesystem. This allows users to install Red Hat Linux onto an existing partition rather then having to repartition their system.
• The upgrade process recognizes Linux RAID arrays.
• Better rescue mode on CD and NFS, allowing improved disaster recovery.
• Networking services have had their client and server components split into separate packages to improve sysadmin flexibility.
• Pentium III support for improved performance
• Workstation installs no longer install networking daemons
• Many system daemons turned off by default (Ed. note: both this and the previous item will help make the default installations a lot more secure)
• MesaGL now included
• All man pages gzip'd
• Added support for /etc/X11/xinitrc/xinitrd.d for X startup logic
• Piranha clustering updates
• Beowulf-style clustering added
• Automatic support for up to 4 gigabytes of RAM
• ISDN configuration utility added
• Encryption now included!
• More beauteous vim included -- /usr/bin/vim supports syntax color and langauge-based indention
• anacron used for many system jobs
• termcap, terminfo, and various terms have been modified to support the Debian Backspace Guidelines for Backspace and Delete, as well as to make Home and End work consistently
• DocBook support included
• Colorized ls by default (remove /etc/profile.d/colorls.* to disable)

Amazingly, they named this release after my dog, Zoot. OK, it's probably after the character in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but still . . .

News for 03/27/2000

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