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[LUG] Redhat 7.2 - More first impressions



After Chas sent me a copy of Redhat 7.2, I installed it on my main PC.  It took 
3 attempts to get a working system.  The first attempt, the graphical installer 
crashed just after the package selection screen.

On my 2nd attempt, it installed successfully, but Grub couldn't boot Redhat.  
And for those who prefer Lilo, you can still choose to install that instead of 
grub.  I am not 100% of why it wouldn't load, however I believe making your 
boot partition a ext3 filesytem, instead of ext2 was not a good move.

My 3rd and final attempt installing Redhat was successful, using only ext2 
partitions.

Other than that KDE looks very, nice indeed, there seem to be some nice options 
in there.  However, since I couldn't do a full install due to a lack of disc 
space, I'm probably missing some of the new goodies.

Overall, it feels a bit rushed out, and should have been polished a little 
more. Already there are about 75megs of updates for Redhat 7.2, which does not 
feel like a good sign, though the majority of the updates are for the kernel 
due to the local ptrace exploit discovered a week ago.

Pete Hatton
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