Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 22nd Sep 2006 21:08 UTC
"With the release of the first beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, eWEEK Labs was looking forward to getting an early look at the progress Red Hat has made with the platform since RHEL 4. Unfortunately, Beta 1 of Version 5 is too flaky for even testing purposes. The biggest problem we encountered was RHEL 5's thoroughly broken software management system."
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RE: hasn't this already been reported?
by sbergman27 on Sat 23rd Sep 2006 12:36
in reply to "hasn't this already been reported?"
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"""anyway, this really isn't supposed to be beta 1, it's actually just a preview release, more of an alpha i guess."""
No. According to RedHat, Fedora is their alpha:
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3628476
So it would be hard to call *this* an alpha, when the alpha that RHEL5 is supposed to be based upon (FC6) won't be released until October.
It all get's a bit confusing, I know.
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2006-01-09
i thought we already had this thread last week (and the wxwidgets gui one too?)
anyway, this really isn't supposed to be beta 1, it's actually just a preview release, more of an alpha i guess.
i originally thought rhel5 was going to be released in sept/oct and be based on fedora5, apparently now it's going to be december (or later) and fc6....
and why would a heavily rpm-based distro, move to apt (written for debs) when yum has worked fine for fedora for years and apt-rpm is a joke? damned ubuntu nutters!
that said, up2date/rhn was a total mess, in fact it was one of the few things that centos differed from redhat with - they already moved to yum!