> Red Hat is happy to announce the immediate availability of Red Hat Linux
6.2,
> Zoot, for the ia32 and SPARC platforms (Alpha is coming, really), with
support
> for French, German, Spanish, and Italian.
>
> You can get your hands on Zoot in many different ways:
>
> 1. ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.2
> 2. Order one of our many boxed set editions from www.redhat.com
> (shipping April 10)
> 3. Buy it at a retail outlet (available April 10)
> 4. Download from one of our many mirror sites. The following mirrors
> are known to be complete:
>
> ftp://ftp.hjc.edu.sg/linux/redhat/redhat-6.2/
> ftp://ftp.ip.pt/pub/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/redhat-6.2/
> ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/RedHat/ftp/redhat/redhat-6.2/
> ftp://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/redhat-6.2/
> ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/redhat-ftp/redhat/redhat-6.2/
> ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/linux/redhat/redhat-6.2/
> ftp://ftp.uselinux.org/pub/redhat/redhat-6.2/
> ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/redhat.com/redhat-6.2/
>
ftp://mirror.atlantic.net/pub/Linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/redhat-6.2/
> ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/MIRRORS/ftp.redhat.com/redhat/redhat-6.2/
> ftp://the-city.seas.upenn.edu/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat-6.2/
>
> For help with this release of Red Hat Linux, subscribe to the Zoot mailing
> list by sending a message with a subject of "subscribe" to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], or buy a Red Hat Linux boxed set and take
> advantage of our support department.
>
> The Zoot development team wishes to thank all of the developers who
> contributed to this release, our beta testers, and everyone who reported
> a bug or made a feature request.
>
> Here's a (partial) list of new features in Zoot:
>
> - 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
>
> - MesaGL now included
>
> - All man pages gzip'd
>
> - Added support for /etc/X11/xinitrc/xinitrd.d for X startup logic
>
> - Piranha clustering updates
>
> o web based GUI config
> o 2-node service failover support
> o generic service monitoring/loadblancing
> o tunneling and direct routing support for IPVS
>
> - Beowulf-style clustering added
>
> o PVM 3.4.3 (Parallel Virtual Machine)
> o LAM 6.3.1 (MPI library environment)
> o make-pvm (PVM aware version of GNU make)
> o (Please note that mpich-1.2.0 is now part of PowerTools for Red Hat
> Linux 6.2.)
>
> - Automatic support for up to 4 gigabytes of RAM
>
> - ISDN configuration utility added
>
> - Encryption now included! Now that the US more closely resembles
> a free country, all versions of Red Hat Linux include:
>
> o Kerberos authentication for mutt, pine, fetchmail,
> cvs, and imap. In addition, the following kerberos-aware
> versions of the following clients have been added:
>
> o Kerboros network clients included for rlogin, rsh, telnet, ftp
> in krb5-workstation package
>
> o GNOME-based Kerberos configuration tools added
>
> o GNU Privacy Guard (gpg) included
>
> o Netscape with 128-bit encryption 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)
>
>
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