RedHat 7.3 to be released 6 May

[Armitage]

Just got an e-mail to this effect from our LUG mailing list.
Apparently this was announced over the RH Mirror mailing list (one of the LUG members runs a RH mirror).

 

[SinNisTeR]

sweet! thanks =)

 

[mamisano]

Cool...just installed 7.2 w/KDE recently on a 2nd work computer. Any good web sites/forums for Linux users. I am familiar with unix commands from my Sco and AIX days, just need to brush up

 

[NaturalChiller]

I installed 7.2 on my machine a few weeks ago. How difficult will it be to upgrade to 7.3? What is involved?

 

[Heisenberg]

Anyone know if it's going to include KDE 3?

 

[mcveigh]

i'm running the 7.3 beta, yes it has the full kde3

 

[MGully]

Where is the best place to download RedHat? I am at a edu so I have a fast connection

 

[mcveigh]

hopefully someone will post a unknown fast server here, but I like linuxiso.org

 

[dsparks]

KDE 3 is going to be nice!!!

 

[vortix]

there's a pretty fast mirror (from my experience, at least) somewhere at indiana.edu or something - check the list of mirrors on redhat's web site

 

[manly]

<< I installed 7.2 on my machine a few weeks ago. How difficult will it be to upgrade to 7.3? What is involved? >>


I've upgraded Red Hat Linux a few times. I've upgraded SuSE Linux a few times. In those cases, the upgrades worked well.

I would recommend the upgrade only with a "minor" version number change. I.e. from 7.2 to 7.3, but not from 7.3 to 8.0.

In my experience, upgrading Linux is much more reliable than upgrading Windows. MS is constantly reinventing the wheel, and with installed 3rd party software, upgrading Windows is often an iffy proposition.

 

[Blayze]

any word on if KDE 3 is going to be included?

 

[mcveigh]

see above

 

[bubba]

Anyone get confirmation on this? I have a few machines to do and I may as well get 7.3, rather than use 7.2 and patch the heck out of it.

 

[Derango]

I thought they were waiting for Gnome 2...

 

[SinNisTeR]

any fast mirrors?

 

[mcveigh]

I agree, who's got a fast mirror?

I was going to install 7.2 on a server that's getting new drives tonight but I'd rather do 7.3 I'm only downloading at @15Kb/s now

 

[SinNisTeR]

youre getting 15?!?!

i envy you! im getting it at 3k from the redhat ftp site!!! :Q

 

[mcveigh]

it's a south american mirror

better list of mirrors I think it's the same mirrors just in an easier format

 

[THELAIR]

anyone got a secret fast site they wanna share with us fellow anandtechers?

 

[manly]

It's tough to get into but this one isn't bad (so far):

ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/redhat/linux/7.3/en/iso/i386/

I like ncftp as a CLI ftp client.

I connected to the following one earlier, but decided against an HTTP download:

http://ftp.dc.aleron.net/linux/redhat/ftp.redhat.com/linux/7.3/en/iso/i386/

If you do go w/ HTTP, use wget from the CLI instead of a web browser.

 

[andrey]

I downloaded all 3 ISOs with an average speed of 200 KB/sec from ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/RedHat/ftp/redhat/linux/7.3/

 

[alm4rr]

this was on /., so expect a lot of slow ftp's

i just finished 3 day dl of 7.2
*sigh*
hadn't installed yet, so might as well re-dl 7.3

 

[Colt45]

<< I downloaded all 3 ISOs with an average speed of 200 KB/sec from ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/RedHat/ftp/redhat/linux/7.3/ >>



I'm only getting 25KB/s

not too bad though, considering its release date and all

 

[SinNisTeR]

try that list, ive found some decent ones, start one at 80 and another cd at 80 on another server and so on! =D