zoot is the name of the official release
or maybe the official release name?:)
Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Mike wrote:
| Hi.
| Sorry if it sound stupid....
|
| What is the difference between ZOOT RedHat6.2 and the official RedHat6.2 ?
| Is there any difference at all ?
|
| Thanks,
|
| Mike
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Avi Boots" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 11:19 PM
| Subject: Red Hat Linux 6.2 (Zoot) now available!
|
|
| > > 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 helpwith 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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