Red Hat released the second beta for their upcoming Red Hat Linux product, codenamed Limbo. Apparently, this will be called “Red Hat Linux 7.4” and not 8.0, as many people concluded earlier. The new beta includes many bug fixes, new versions for KDE and some additional fixes for Gnome 2.0 from the CVS, as well as GCC 3.2-pre. Mailing list archives for Limbo here.
Red Hat Limbo Beta 2 Released
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Will be based on the nextr generation linx kernel ?
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You mean, 2.5? No. 2.5 is still development version and it comes out sometime next year. Limbo will come out in 2-3 months, therefore it will ship with other 2.4.18 or 2.4.19 if it will come out in time.
I think he meant if the “real” 8.0 will come out when Linux 2.6 comes out if this is 7.4 now.
Who knows when 8.0 will be out? This is something that maybe even Red Hat wouldn’t be able to answer. It all depends if the next release is 7.5 or 8.0, and if the new linux kernel would be ready or not. No one really knows… We all know that software is almost never done on the scheduled time.
Is there an easy way to upgrade all of my packages to beta 2 from my beta 1 install of limbo?
apt-get dist-upgrade
er uh, wrong distro
Run: up2date or rsync. There is more information on the mailing list.
ftp://ftp.uninett.no/linux/RedHat/redhat/beta/limbo/en/iso/i386/
up2date never worked for me with Limbo (1). I don’t know if it’s possible to upgrade Limbo beta 1. You may be forced to download the isos…but wait a few hours ’til mine finish downloading!
> You may be forced to download the
> isos…but wait a few hours ’til
> mine finish downloading!
🙂
This post is just to clear up a couple of things. As I understand the situation, older, binary only commercial software that was developed on Red Hat Linux 6.x and 7.[1-3] _won’t_ run on 7.4 or 8.0 because they were built against older, incompatible libc versions and built with GCC < 3.x. Is this true? If so, can I install something like “/usr/lib/libc.so.old” that will fix this?
One last thing: on all my Linux systems, commercial software like RealPlayer runs _very_ slow. Comparatively, Xine and MPlayer run nicely. I know compiled software should run somewhat faster than binaries, but the performance difference is ridiculous. What’s going on?
Can I recompile old libc versions with GCC 3.2? Help!
Thanks,
Chris
As Red Hat and its employees have stated on many occasions,
any release that breaks binary compatibility is a major
release. Since this Red Hat beta is based on a new version
of the GCC compiler (3.1), binaries built on this system
will not be natively compatible with a Red Hat 7.3 system,
so this is a major release, meaning Red Hat 8.0.
In fact, there was a bug with up2date in Limbo beta1. What I did is download up2date, up2date-gnome and rhnlib RPMs from RedHat “rawhide” and install them. After that little tweak, up2date did works!
Enjoy!
I have a question for Limbo testers: in the latest Limbo preview at eWeek (advertised on osnews in “Red Hat Shows
a More Limber Linux”) there was a screenshot of Gnome2
control-center with screen resolution capplet. I don’t
use RH, but I’d like to check out this little app.
I downloaded cc .src.rpm, unpacked it and compiled, but
the capplet wasn’t there by default, so i guess it comes
in different package. Wolud someone be that nice and find
out for me, where can I get the sources for it?
What reason do you have to think this will be 7.4? Just the directory name of that mirror? I highly doubt it will be 7.4, because, as another reader points out, it will break binary compatibility. I think we have 8.0 beta on our hands here.
Look at the download URL, the folder is “7.4BETA”.
Maybe this is just a guess or they will change it when it’s ready.
That’s just the directory name on planetmirror, NOT Red Hat.
Hi Spark, I know the directory is labelled as 7.3.92 (or what not) but with GCC version being changed, new GNOME release, rewrite of all the tools (GTK2) etc, I think Adam et al are right on this one. It would be 8.0
<abashed>Sorry…mistake
Above comment directed at Eugina.