Red Hat 7.3 officially released!!!

[Anthaus]

Codenamed "Valhalla", (not to be mistaken with 7.3 beta "Skipjack").
Goodies:
kernel-2.4.18-3 (finally an official 2.4.18)
KDE 3.0 (some people say it looks like WinXP)
Gnome 1.4 (it should have some enhancements from RH 7.2)

Check it out here:
www.redhat.com

I already downloaded the new kernel (the latest from rawhide is 2.4.18-0.26) and I'm about to see if I can make it work with my current setup.

As for the 3 whole CDs I'm downloading them NOW!

[Mike1_2001]

OMG a post in Linux!!! hmmmmmmmmmmmm :P

[Anthaus]

Hey!
Take pity on my lousy post count.
:D

[merlin262]

w00t

[Mike1_2001]

This board needs to be more interesting :)

[Anthaus]

Heads up!
There seems to be a major change in the new kernel since my "make" libraries were unable to install the nvidia kernel driver.

The setup says it can't find two "aio" files. Instead, I found two "airo" files, so I duplicated and renamed them. But some other files were missing and I decided to stop.

Some guy at nVnews said he got his GF2 working under RH 7.3 with tarball installation, so I guess the only suspect left is my "make" version.

Any thoughts?
Merlin?

[Mike1_2001]

I have a GF2 Ultra on the Linux box and that thing keeps on crapping out on me with X LOL

[Anthaus]

Originally posted by Mike1_2001
I have a GF2 Ultra on the Linux box and that thing keeps on crapping out on me with X LOL

If you want some help please post your specs and I'll make a new thread with the answer.

Motherboard
Processor
Distribution
kernel version (be sure to include all the numbers)
XFree version

If possible, post your device section in the Xconfig-4 file.

[merlin262]

I'd just use the source RPMs(or source tarballs), and build them as per there instructions for other distros besides rhat.

I don't have an nVidia card, so I can't be much mroe help. :(

nVidia will probably update the driver page in a day or to, so with a bit patience, you'll be able to upgrade painlessly to Rhat 7.3

[Mike1_2001]

Originally posted by Anthaus


If you want some help please post your specs and I'll make a new thread with the answer.

Motherboard
Processor
Distribution
kernel version (be sure to include all the numbers)
XFree version

If possible, post your device section in the Xconfig-4 file.

Iwill KK266
Athlon 1.2 266
768 MB RAM

I've tried Mandrake 8.1 and that didn't fly I'm gonna DL 8.2 for a spin. Slackware 8.0 didn't like my system either........ Things that I have to do just to make Quake 3 work :mad:

[Anthaus]

Just a note about my "experiment"

I tried to upgrade to 7.3 just by upgrading the kernel. That worked. But I couldn't "make" the nvidia drivers. Lots of failed dependencies (NO, NO, NO... I DID NOT forget to install the kernel-source).

Nevertheless, some guys made a full install of 7.3 and never had a problem. This is way out of my reach. So either I'll try to install from source rpms or move definitely to 7.3