RedHat 7.2 Beta (was: [Gllug] Hang on Boot)

[John Edwards]

On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 08:45:13PM +0100, Walid wrote:
>  --- Ian Northeast <ian at house-from-hell.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Ade McGonigle
> wrote:
> > > 
> > > I have Redhat 7.2 running on my thinkpad X20
> 
> Is there redhat 7.2! I thought it was just a Rumour ?

Hi
To clear up any confusion here's the offical response from RedHat:
	http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/beta/rhl.html

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It has come to our attention that rumors are floating regarding the 
appearance of a Red Hat Linux beta release, named ROSWELL. We would 
like to reassure you that there is nothing of the sort.

No other object has been misidentified as a Red Hat Linux beta release 
more often than Rawhide. Rawhide was updated just recently. Reporters 
probably thought they saw something on an FTP site other than Rawhide, 
but we assure you, it was Rawhide.

Reports cite that this supposed ROSWELL beta included 4 CDs of software, 
with such things as a 2.4.6 Linux kernel, XFree86 4.1.0, KDE 2.2pre, 
GNOME 1.4, and journaling file system support, and included support for 
both x86 and ia64.

Were any such Red Hat Linux beta release to exist, it would not be 
recommended for use on mission-critical hardware, and any casualties 
due to data loss, mutation, swamp gas, radiation, or strange glowing 
lights with such a release would be scoffed at. Any problems or bugs 
with such a release would most likely be the effect of passing weather 
balloons.

These problems would be reported at:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/

However, there is no evidence to suggest the actual presence of a ROSWELL 
beta release. Those who claim otherwise would best not flaunt their 
naivete by telling anyone that they saw anything other than Rawhide.
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Nearest mirror is:
    ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/roswell/


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